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Actuaries Institute devises director skills checklist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... that two core capabilities in insurance - claims management and underwriting - are lacking on the boards of major life insurers, likely leading to poor claims experience. "Irrespective of their domain skills, directors need to have the capability and ...

Industry mixed over FSC advice framework

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... it. It was championed by the FSC whose members, to this day, are primarily fund managers, superannuation funds and life insurers. Advisers are right to question the FSC's motives." Trapnell also wants to see the FSC propose the separation of risk advisers ...

FSC to ban occupational exclusions

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... consultation with regulators including the ACCC. "This 12-month transition period is designed to enable trustees and life insurers to re-negotiate existing group life policies that are currently in place, and for trustees to engage with members," the ...

Consumers lose out on IP changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... billion in losses over the past five years, meaning certain benefits will be removed or reduced on new policies. Life insurers such as TAL and ClearView have recently launched new income protection products in response to the reforms. Meanwhile, NobleOak's ...

TAL releases income protection range

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
... put forth several changes that the life insurance industry must implement for income protection insurance. It gave life insurers more time to have new policy contract terms in place by 1 October 2022. Clark said: "This is an important piece of work for ...

Stephen Jones changes tack on risk advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... arguments advisers brought to him over the last 18 months after admitting last year he had a negative bias towards life insurers and its commission structure for financial advisers. "I've reflected upon those and had a look at it. I've also had ...

APRA expands life insurance data reporting

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... entities, APRA will formally need to consult on any such proposals at that time with industry," the letter APRA sent to insurers read. Other stakeholders were concerned about APRA publishing explanations from individual insurers as it may result in releasing ...

Frontier hires former Perpetual head of infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021
... institutional investors, local endowments, not-for-profits, high-net-worth investors, and liability-driven investors such as insurers and public pools of money. It has also accelerated its investment in ESG, governance and technology capabilities, hiring ...

Every super fund should cover every occupation: FSC

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021
... To implement the above, it is proposing three mechanisms. First, is to implement a prohibition on these terms on life insurers through an appendix to the FSC's Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code). It said the complexity here is that while ...

Data to improve TPD outcomes: ASIC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... ASIC's Report 696 TPD Insurance: Progress made but gaps remain outlines the areas that need improvement from the nine life insurers that were identified in the 2019 Report 633. ASIC noted insurers need to uplift their data capability as poor data capability ...