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Former Suncorp executive joins MetLife

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
MetLife Australia has appointed a former Suncorp executive as its chief strategy and customer officer. Gerard McDermott will lead the strategy, project management office, customer, digital, marketing, and data functions effective immediately. He reports ...

TAL bolsters senior leadership

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... year. He joined TAL in September 2012 as head of value insight and profitability. Daley has also worked for Suncorp and MetLife. Nick White joins TAL as head of clients and strategic management. Moving from MetLife, White will lead a team to manage a ...

Members abandon bank-aligned group insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... concentration of members in larger super funds underpins the competitive nature of the market. In the NFP segment, AIA, TAL and MetLife are the dominant life insurance providers, which collectively represent nearly 80% of all NFP members. (See Figure ...

MetLife Australia chief to lead industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... deliver sustainable long-term investment returns to these members and clients," he said. Stewart was appointed to lead MetLife Australia in 2014. Prior to this she held senior leadership roles with BT Financial Group and Merrill Lynch Investment Management. ...

MetLife makes senior hire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
The former head of group insurance product and strategy at MLC is now leading MetLife's group product division. MetLife appointed Stephen Sefton as head of group product, charged with expanding its group insurance product offering and capabilities. ...

CommInsure launches digital claims for super funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... for income protection, total and permanent disability, and terminal illness visa its Prime Super Member Online portal. MetLife has also launched a digital claims tracker for its members that allows them to track updates as a claim they lodged is proc ...

MetLife expands retail life business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
MetLife is ramping up its retail life insurance offering with two new appointments. Casey Sugden joins as senior sales manager for Victoria and Tasmania, tasked with leading adviser engagement and growing the regional sales team. Sugden was most recently ...

MetLife awards $11bn custody mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
MetLife Australia is included among a $10.9 billion custody mandate awarded by its global parent across three key Asia Pacific markets. The US-based life insurer awarded the US$8.7 billion ($10.9 billion) custody mandate to HSBC Securities Services. ...

Industry fund cuts life premiums, renews insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... insurance premiums for younger members by as much as 50%. MTAA Super recently renewed its long-standing partnership with MetLife to June 2020. The pair struck a deal which sees default insurance premiums for 16 to 21-year-old members drop from $4.82 ...

TAL forms medical advisory board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... inflows in the 12 months to September after winning significant superannuation fund insurance mandates, together with MetLife and AIA Australia. AIA Australia (28.4%) held the largest market share of the $6.3 billion group insurance market, followed ...