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What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... strengthening its operations following the outage. MLC Life and Resolution Life Australasia to merge (December 11) MLC Life Insurance and Resolution Life Australasia are set to merge, creating one of Australia's largest life insurance businesses. ...

TAL creates consumer and growth unit

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Westpac Life P&L during its integration with TAL In August 2021, Westpac announced that it had agreed to sell Westpac Life Insurance Services. The sale was completed one year later. Before that, she was general manager at International Life Solutions ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Super, Castro worked as an advisor at EY in power and utilities and transport and as an analyst in the banking, life insurance and FMCG sectors.

MLC Life and Resolution Life Australasia to merge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
MLC Life Insurance and Resolution Life Australasia are set to merge, creating one of Australia's largest life insurance businesses. Nippon Life Insurance - MLC's parent company - announced it will acquire 100% of Resolution Life. As a result ...

Super funds should focus on 'simple' advice: Jones

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... Jones said. "And I want to ensure that those simple questions that people are asking their super fund or their life insurance company can be answered by somebody who's trained up, has the qualifications to answer those basic questions, with all the ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... health services across the population having increased on average by 2.9% each year over the last 10 years. Within life insurance the increase in the rate of mental health permanent disability claims grew by 9% each year over the 10 years compared to ...

ClearView's share price tanks 31%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... expect to have a material effect on the price or value of its securities given the nature of its business, being life insurance." "The information related to the first quarter claims experience only. Claims volatility occurs from time to time in the ...

AFCA names and shames in fresh Datacube release

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... majority of which (2034 or 56.93%) were around account administration issues. A further 1047 were around group life insurance, and 455 to do with death benefits distribution. The fresh data comes as Cbus is facing proceedings in the Federal Court over ...

Systemic issues impact 20k consumers: AFCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
... were offered a reinstatement of insurances lost with premiums backdated to the date of cancellation, AFCA said. Life insurance A life insurer failed to provide the correct notice of a policy cancellation due to delays in mail processing caused by the ...

Liberal MP calls for SoA replacement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... also receive a makeover, while a new class of advisers called "Qualified Advisers" from banks, super funds, and life insurance firms will be able to provide simple advice.