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Key AMP executive resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... market and customer experience. Her experience in superannuation and wealth management covered corporate super, group insurance, pricing, and operations, working for large institutions such as NAB and its former subsidiary MLC. Bourguignon spent over ...

Retail fund ups premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... specify a reason for the 23% increase in its notice to member. Diversa is the trustee for ING Living Super and group insurance for the fund is provided through MetLife.

ASIC explores value for money in default group insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... conditions. The regulator also identified that different cohorts of members seem to be receiving different outcomes from group insurance. ASIC said younger members and those in insurance policies with more restrictive terms and conditions are likely ...

TAL group life lead in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... manager of group life is set to take on a new role at Zurich in March. Darren Wickham has been appointed head of group insurance at Zurich, joining the insurer's leadership team. With about 30 years' experience as an actuary and in superannuation ...

ASIC to improve default insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
An ASIC investigation found group insurance cover is poorly designed and disclosed to members who are being defaulted into occupational categories with limited data. After looking at the practices of super funds, ASIC found a high proportion of members ...

Hannover reverses out of group insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... said. Hannover has two main businesses in Australia: working directly with superannuation trustees to provide group insurance to funds, and a reinsurance business.

Insurance in super is confusing: Consumers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... Research, the report draws on 50 in-depth interviews with members who had engaged with their super fund around group insurance within the last year. Completed between May and June, some of the participants were already thinking about the impact of COVID-19. ...

Industry fund names new group insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... industry fund said it undertook a comprehensive review and tender process, which has resulted in OnePath losing the group insurance mandate that it has held for about a decade. The mandate was instead awarded to AIA, commencing January 1. Under the new ...

MLC Super overhauls fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... fees were reduced and commissions removed in the Access Pre Select Fund. Also on this date, commissions ceased in group insurance arrangements in MLC Wrap Super, MLC Wrap Investments, MLC Wrap Super Series 2 and MLC Wrap Investments Series 2. On November ...

ClearView adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... February 2021, accountable for the end-to-end life insurance business. Kerr is currently Zurich's head of group insurance, a role he shifted into just last month. Kerr transitioned to Zurich as part of its acquisition of the ANZ OnePath business ...