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AIA Australia partners with Your Wills

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... present. "At AIA, we help people protect their greatest asset - themselves and their families - with life and health insurance, and the flip side of that is ensuring they have a Will to take care of everything after they are gone," Mu said. Your Wills ...

Super fund in-houses advice service

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... information to small-and-medium-sized employers, Potts said. "There have been significant changes to superannuation and insurance in the past two years, and there are potentially more on the way in the coming months. It's important that employers are ...

Queensland advice firm joins Connectus

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... Newstead, Queensland. It advises high-net-worth clients including discretionary investment management, estate planning, insurance advice and superannuation services. "In Connectus, we have found a partner that understands our business and is aligned ...

Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Westpac has settled a class action relating to life insurance sold through its financial advice network. The class action was brought against Westpac Group by Shine Lawyers in 2017. It claimed that between 2011 and 2017, customers who received financial ...

Suncorp divests super unit to industry fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... began scouting for potential buyers in February 2020, joining a herd of large financial institutions abandoning life insurance and superannuation. Suncorp Portfolio Services landed in hot water at the banking Royal Commission for a number of issues that ...

Rice Warner prepares to shut up shop

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... Warner's chief executive Andrew Boal, head of superannuation Stephen Freeborn, and executive general manager of insurance Jennifer Baxter will become Deloitte consulting partners. Rice will join Deloitte in a consulting capacity. "The move will provide ...

Clime appoints new chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... about $5 million. At the time, Madison had about 100 advisers with $3 billion in funds under advice and total in-force insurance premiums of $65 million. Total gross revenue was about $34 million. Donat joined Clime's executive team and continued ...

Advisers to go forth with claims handling

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Act 2020 in December 2020 and required AFSLs to include an authorisation to assist with insurance claims. However, the AFA was concerned whether advisers would need to vary their licence to include an authorisation for ...

Westpac earnings take hit

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... associated with ending the relationship with IOOF and an $84 million write-down of goodwill related to lenders mortgage insurance. Furthermore, the bank recorded an accounting loss of $113 million on the sale of Westpac Pacific along with transaction ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... and weak performance. IPM was founded in Sweden in 1998, attracting institutional investors like pension funds, life insurance companies and foundations from the US, Europe, Asia and Australia to its algorithm-driven macro strategy. IPM is in the process ...