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ANZ appoints PwC for OnePath compliance review

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... its OnePath businesses. ASIC raised concerns following ANZ breach reports in 2013 to 2015 regarding life and general insurance, superannuation and funds management activities within OnePath, which resulted in roughly $4.5 million in compensation and ...

FSC defends industry self-regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... underwriting and claims." "The development of industry self-regulation is common across financial services, with the general insurance, banking, customer-owned banking and insurance broking industries all operating similar processes to develop their ...

BT appoints insurance GM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... Gallagher, where she was chief financial and operating officer. She was also chief financial officer at Wesfarmers General Insurance, head of claims at IAG and a senior manager at KPMG. At BT, she will head up the both the company's general and life ...

CBA result boosted by wealth division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... increased 12%, due to the continued benefit of lower lapse rates, partly offset by lower new business sales. General insurance income increased as a result of lower event claims, and a 4% increase in in-force premiums from higher renewals, partly offset ...

Life powers Chinese insurance industry

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... Similarly, growth of Chinese life insurance was 18% in 2014, compared to 8% the previous year. In contrast, growth of general insurance fell from 17% in 2013 to 16% in 2014. The research attributed the continuing growth of life and health insurance in ...

Centrepoint's wealth business up 10pc

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... 14% to $2.8bn. The funding business recorded an underlying pre-tax profit of $2.5m, down 52% due to the soft general insurance market. Centrepoint announced that a final dividend of 1.2 cents per share fully franked to be paid on 16 October 2015. Total ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... life insurance code of conduct by July 1, 2016. The code will be similar to the existing codes for banking and general insurance and will aim to set out best practice standards for insurers, including in relation to underwriting and claims management. ...

Kaplan launches online insurance courses

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... qualifications: Certificate IV in Life Insurance (Claims, Sales and Underwriting stream), Certificate IV in General Insurance (Claims, Sales and Generalist stream) and Tier 1 Insurance Broking. Each course takes 12 weeks to complete. "With predictions ...

ANZ SMSF head moves to Zurich

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... superannuation fund (SMSF) platforms at ANZ, Raelene Seales, will be joining Zurich Australia as chief operating officer general insurance. A wealth and banking specialist, Seales will begin the role at Zurich in August and replace current chief operating ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... financial planning director departing after 41 years at the company and BT Financial Group hiring a new head of general insurance. Financial planning director to leave AMP - Steve Helmich will leave AMP to pursue other opportunities in the industry. ...