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MLC expands customer experience efforts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
MLC Life Insurance appointed its first chief customer experience officer. Former KPMG partner Louise Portelli has been appointed to lead the life firm's customer experience efforts, and will link with MLC in March. Reporting to chief executive David ...

MLC Life welcomes board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
The $500 million outlay to improve systems and technology at MLC Life Insurance is being supported with the appointment of a new board member. MLC Life Insurance recently welcomed Jacqueline Korhonen as an independent non-executive director. She has ...

Industry fund hires group executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... accounting services; company secretariat and legal; audit and risk management; and compliance. Kyle most recently worked on MLC Life's separation from NAB and established their first-line risk, compliance and financial crime capabilities. Rest chief ...

MLC Life restructures team, ramps up transformation ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
MLC Life Insurance announced major changes to its innovation and transformation teams with three senior hires and a restructure of its executive lineup. In a bid to ramp up its technology transformation, the life insurer made three new appointments ...

Life insurance sector strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... half (47.8%) of the market share, up from 41.4% in 2014. This was driven largely by Nippon Life Japan acquiring 80% of MLC Life Insurance in 2015. CBA sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... half (47.8%) of the market share, up from 41.4% in 2014. This was driven largely by Nippon Life Japan acquiring 80% of MLC Life Insurance in 2015. CBA sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. ...

MLC MySuper investment budget was tight-fisted: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... of the member's investments," he said. In another conflict of interest highlighted by Hodge, prior to July 2016, MLC Life Insurance's policy limited exposure to illiquid assets, the Commission heard. "The problem effectively went away because ...

Group insurers pressed for resources

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... FSC Summit last week. Other speakers included TAL's Brett Clark and APRA's Adrian Rees. The session was led by MLC Life Insurance's David Hackett. In May's Federal Budget, the Government said by 1 July 2019, group life insurance will ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
MLC Life Insurance appointed a 30-year industry veteran as its new head of underwriting. Mick Jones will join MLC in August and report to chief underwriter and head of new business Debbie Kennedy. He will be responsible for leading the underwriting ...

New model boosts adviser engagement: MLC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
Since changing its retail advice support model, MLC Life Insurance has recorded a 25% improvement in lapse rates in the year to May 2018. MLC Life introduced business engagement managers (BEM) a year ago to provide advisers with the resources to engage ...