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CFS hires executive manager of insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
Colonial First State has recruited an executive manager of insurance from AIA Australia. Baneesha Narang joins CFS after working as a technical manager of group insurance at AIA Australia for over eight years. Prior to that, she was an assistant product ...

NEOS grows sales teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... managers Eugene Badenhorst and Troy Abbott in looking after the regions. Yamen was most recently in a similar role with AIA Australia for three years, and prior to that was a financial planner at Melbourne-based Stephens and Plattfuss & Co. NEOS head ...

Group life premiums topple benefits paid: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... benefits. Industry fund Rest, which recently appointed TAL as its group insurer after a 15-year relationship with AIA Australia, took in $3.4 billion worth of premiums and paid out $1.3 billion in benefits. BT Financial Group paid out about a third or ...

PYSP puts SMSFs at risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... warnings come as life insurers warn the public at large to check they won't be left without life cover after July 1. This week AIA launched a campaign advising Australians of the potential impact of the changes, amid fears many are unaware of their existence. ...

MLC Life wins group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
MLC Life Insurance has won a group insurance mandate from a $6 billion superannuation fund. It will replace AIA Australia. Maritime Super members will be covered for death, TPD and income protection insurance under a new agreement with MLC Life that's ...

Super fund names new life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... they need us most." TAL recently won a group insurance mandate from $51 billion superannuation fund Rest, replacing AIA Australia. The former Queensland local government employee super fund provider opened its doors to the public in June 2017. It now ...

Industry fund awards group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... $51 billion superannuation fund has awarded a group insurance mandate to TAL, ending a 15-year relationship with AIA Australia. Rest entered a Memorandum of Understanding with TAL to provide life insurance from 1 December 2019. TAL will replace AIA Australia ...

Swiss Re to manage Freedom remediation

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... consideration of $5 million when its policy admin services transition is complete. Under the agreement, Swiss Re, AIA Australia and NobleOak will end Freedom's product development and distribution, and its policy administration agreements. "In conjunction ...

Group risk inflows slow at CommInsure, AMP

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... the segment. AMP followed with a decline of 30.6%, reducing its market share from 6.1% the year before to 4.1%. AIA Australia and MetLife Insurance made the biggest gains in group risk premium inflows, recording 20.6% and 13% annual growth. Overall ...

Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... months) and Westpac (three months) take the longest to process death claims within group insurance, while TAL and AIA Australia are the most efficient (four weeks each), according to the ASIC and APRA analysis. As for TPD claims in group insurance, Suncorp/Asteron ...