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MLC exec to lead fintech

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... retail platform and asset management services to advisers. His prior experience includes working in senior banking, insurance and financial planning roles at NAB and BNZ. Intelliflo has also hired Stephen Wirth and Nicholas Sekulovski in a bid to grow ...

Spirit Super drops fees after merger

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... up to the merger, Tasplan switched its MySuper product from lifecycle to single-strategy, and both funds raised their insurance premiums. MTAA increased its group insurance premiums twice; and Tasplan increased its income protection premiums in September ...

Rice Warner acquired by Deloitte

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... Rice Warner's chief executive Andrew Boal, head of superannuation Stephen Freeborn, and executive general manager of insurance Jennifer Baxter will become Deloitte consulting partners. Michael Rice, who founded the firm in 1987, will also join Deloitte ...

AMP names new chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... executive wealth Australia, overseeing the sale of the business in 2018. She first joined ANZ as global managing director - insurance - ANZ Wealth. George was previously at ING Insurance and oversaw IT, operations, marketing and product for Asia Pacific ...

Multiples paid for client books dip

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... be determined by the approved services that are provided." A "vanilla type" AFSL, which includes superannuation, risk insurance and financial advice, is valued at $20,000. A vanilla AFSL with a managed discretionary account (MDA) facility would go for ...

Risk inflows stagnant, satisfaction varies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... negative result of 96.2%. "It should be noted that individual company growth can be significantly impacted by super fund insurance mandate movements, with BT/Asgard Super moving from Westpac to AIA, Qantas Super from MLC to MetLife, Telstra Super from ...

ClearView bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
Listed financial services company ClearView Wealth has made a key appointment to its life insurance team. Nick Kulikov has been appointed to the newly created position of head of product and pricing. In the new role he will be responsible for ClearView's ...

Mercer adds investment, superannuation experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... Superannuation. Minto is currently the chair of Swiss Re and Partners Life, and sits on the boards of the National Disability Insurance Agency and Dai-ichi Life Asia Pacific. Just yesterday it was announced Minto had departed Equity Trustees where he ...

MetLife announces suite of product changes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... sum insured increases of up to $4 million, compared to $2 million offered by most other insurers. MetLife chief retail insurance officer Meray El-Khoury said the product changes would help enhance the value of life insurance for advisers and the clients ...

Investment bonds a good alternative to Wills: GDG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... event. Investors can also withdraw their funds at any time. Further, they are treated as non-estate assets (under the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 ) and can be cordoned off from future claims made by creditors (under the Bankruptcy Act 1996 ). Salsbury ...