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Count acquires Adelaide advice firm

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... business. Johnston Grocke was established in 1990 with Doug Johnston and director John Grocke, with a focus on life insurance. They have expanded the capabilities into financial planning and accounting as the business grew. Their services also include ...

iExtend appoints chief operating officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... last year, iExtend has further cemented its place in the financial services industry as a provider of choice to life insurance policyholders who have decided to either cancel or reduce their cover and have experienced a health change," Sarkis said. "We ...

RainmakerLive rebrands to Rainmaker MarketPro

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... access to Rainmaker MarketPro to access data and reports as part of Rainmaker's wider research report library. Life insurance, retirement solutions and managed funds data sets are also available on the terminal. "Plan For Life's research has ...

Life insurers keep breaking their own rules: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Breaches of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (the Code) increased for a fourth consecutive year, with life insurers reporting 14,670 instances of non-compliance, a 19% increase from the previous period. The Code, the industry's north star for good ...

AZ NGA practices merge on road to 'super firm'

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... structure, dedicated management team, and a range of specialist capabilities in aged care, estate planning and life insurance advice that are on offer will steer the business forward. "As a small business, Rob and I do a bit of everything. We run the ...

MLC Life explores new market

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
MLC Life has recruited a new general manager to help drive growth in the individual life insurance segment. Imran Lalani has been appointed general manager of emerging individual markets. He joins MLC Life Insurance with extensive experience in leadership ...

ART appoints insurance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... years in the financial services industry, he is a seasoned leader with deep expertise across general insurance, life insurance and superannuation. Before arriving at ART in 2020, Finney spent 12 years at Suncorp Life, most recently as executive manager ...

Westpac's Yetton chooses to move on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... Mercer. However, Westpac retained its platform businesses, BT Panorama and Asgard. Westpac also walked away from life insurance, offloading its Australian business to Japan's TAL Dai-ichi Life in 2021 for $900 million. He previously undertook a similar ...

Annuities' capital settings due for change: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... capital requirements for annuity products, provided certain risk controls are in place," APRA said. At its July 2024 life insurance roundtable, participants pointed out that aspects of the capital framework are more restrictive than those in overseas ...

Family office CIO joins Heritvest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... senior roles at National Australia Bank and BNP Paribas. Nassios started his career as an actuarial analyst in life insurance and annuities and later moved to superannuation and investments. A career shift in 2006 resulted in working for the Myer family ...