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Magellan, Barclays back new firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... other founding partners. The firm will provide corporate and strategic advisory, equity and debt capital markets underwriting, cash equities, research, prime brokerage and fixed income services in Australia. Magellan will have a 40% economic interest ...

CoreLogic appoints financial services solutions head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... digitisation. He joins from Genworth where he spent the last 19 years in a number of roles and was most recently head of underwriting risk and business review. Prior to this he was risk manager, senior risk analyst and insurance auditor. Prior to this ...

Zurich rejigs operations team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... newly-created role of head of operations, integration. Beilby is now responsible for initiatives that support claims, underwriting and service leaders, after spending nearly six years as Zurich's chief underwriting officer. Peter Tilocca, who was ...

Insurers COVID-19 response slammed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... he said. "People are shunted into this definition because of their employment status." Mennen argued that from an underwriting point of view, changing the level of cover depending on a person's security of employment doesn't have a clear purpose. ...

Administrators appointed to iProsperity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... Barry Wight, Jeremy Nipps and Alan Walker of Cor Cordis have been appointed to i-Prosperity Pty Ltd, iProsperity Underwriting, iProsperity Australia, iProsperity Group Holdings, i-Prosperity Group, iProsperity Holding Group, G&H Partners Co, Cornerstone ...

Life insurance salary guide for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... provide thorough training and support, the return in investment can take as little as three to six months." As for underwriting, the profession is seeing a rapid change of pace due in large to automation and technology. Profusion identified work/life ...

Insurer invokes financial hardship policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... consideration of alternate methods of information collection to ease the burden on our health system, maintaining standard underwriting guidelines for all applicants, and no blanket COVID-19 exclusions," Mamelok said. "Integrity Life remains open for ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... debating its fourth fiscal stimulus package - worth around US$2 trillion -- and the Fed has pulled out all the stops in underwriting whatever (they be junk bonds or whatnots) to ensure liquidity keeps flowing. Equity market investors can justify the ...

Risk advisers under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... including insurers paying trailing commissions that result in poor product selection and claim disputes caused by underwriting complications." Kennen went so far as to say that the financial advice industry will have to justify how consumers could be ...

TAL hits back at rumour mill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... claim for COVID-19. New customers purchasing TAL policies will be covered in line with their policy and individual underwriting terms." "However, at the time of taking out a policy, those customers who have recently travelled abroad, or are showing symptoms ...