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Life insurance inflows stable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... Insight show. The group insurance segment however, recorded minimal growth, up 1.8% year-on-year to $6.3 billion, with MetLife (14.1%), TAL (10.6%) and AIA (7.1%) reporting stronger inflows as a result of winning significant superannuation fund insurance ...

AustralianSuper launches insurance-free product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... in life we need to adjust our assumptions of what people need at various stages in their life," she said. Group insurer MetLife Australia recently flagged it is working with its superannuation fund partners to determine if they should follow in AustralianSuper's ...

Group insurance awareness encouraging: MetLife

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
A new MetLife survey reveals almost 75% of working Australians are aware they have insurance within their superannuation and have actually reviewed it. The life insurer surveyed more than 1500 employees aged between 18 and 64-years-old, aiming to understand ...

New CFO named for $20bn industry fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... on our growth strategy." Horskins' appointment follows VicSuper's decision to switch its insurance provider from AMP to MetLife. The partnership with AMP commenced in 1994 or National Mutual as it was known then. It demutualised to become AXA and eventually ...

VicSuper names new insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
VicSuper has appointed its new insurance provider, replacing a long-running partnership with AMP. MetLife will take over the $19 billion superannuation fund's insurance portfolio following a comprehensive tender process involving six potential insurers ...

MetLife pushes for the retail market with new hire

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
MetLife will launch its retail life insurance offer to advisers and brokers next year and has appointed a head of retail sales from AMP to facilitate this process. Matt Lippiatt joins MetLife from AMP, where he was national account manager. He has held ...

MetLife tracker enhances claims experience

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
MetLife Australia has enlisted an industry super fund to help launch a digital tracker aiming to add value to members' claims experience. The digital claims tracker updates customers on the progress of claims in real time via desktops, tablets and mobile ...

The rise and impact of insurtech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... collaboration is already occurring with the likes of partnerships between AXA and Alibaba, and in-house incubator models such as MetLife's LumenLab. "Increasingly, partnerships are being viewed as a welcome development in the ongoing effort to address ...

Insurers require urgent start-up collaborations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... another program Flamingo took part in, which aimed to remove procurement barriers, involved partnering with life insurer MetLife in Singapore and building good business cases with experts in the field. Charnley said not only was the collaboration valuable ...

CBA contemplates CommInsure sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... nonetheless follows a troubled year for the insurer. In August 2016, CareSuper opted to award its life insurance mandate to MetLife after more than a decade with CBA's life insurance arm; NGS Super followed suit in September by transitioning to TAL ...