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Club Plus announces insurance changes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
The $3 billion industry fund for club workers has announced significant changes to its insurance offering with group insurer OnePath. From 1 January 2021, members will see premiums on death, total and permanent disability and income protection cover ...

Zurich joins reconciliation plan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... reconciliation movement. Zurich Australia chief executive, life and investments Justin Delaney, and chief executive general insurance, Tim Plant said the move comes as Zurich continues to grow its presence in Australia. "As a global insurance company ...

RC recommendations closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... addresses 20 recommendations from the 2018 inquiry. The new law will prevent the hawking of all financial products - insurance products, superannuation, shares and other managed investment schemes - via an unsolicited telephone call or any form of "real-time ...

Findex appoints chief growth officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... the region gears up for economic recovery." Prior to his role at Aon, Carey was executive vice president at Combined Insurance, a division of Chubb, managing director commercial at FleetPartners and vice president of sales, Asia Pacific at Hewlett Packard ...

ClearView flags future with HUB24

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... fit-for-purpose solutions," ClearView said. "Our intention is also to collaborate with HUB24 on future investment and insurance product initiatives including the addition of ClearView's managed portfolios and our flagship LifeSolutions product series ...

Sunsuper ups TPD premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Sunsuper will increase premiums for total and permanent disability insurance from 1 January 2021. This is the first increase for Sunsuper members since 2014. A 35-year-old female with default cover for example, will pay an additional $0.52 per week ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... independent and employee owned. The access to capital is greater with Kudu [which is backed by NYSE-listed White Mountains Insurance Group] than with Highbury as we keep growing." Holding identified three areas of future growth for Channel: fundraising ...

New fixed income boutique launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... said. The investment team includes Chris Baylis, formerly the lead portfolio manager for the UBS Cash Plus Fund and the Insurance and ALM book, as founder and chief investment officer. Kylie-Anne Richards, formerly a portfolio manager at prop trading ...

MLC Super overhauls fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... fees were reduced and commissions removed in the Access Pre Select Fund. Also on this date, commissions ceased in group insurance arrangements in MLC Wrap Super, MLC Wrap Investments, MLC Wrap Super Series 2 and MLC Wrap Investments Series 2. On November ...

The hits you don't see hurt the most: Aviva

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... by Aviva Investors, demonstrated that COVID-19's blows to real assets have left pension funds wary. Less than half of insurance companies (49%) surveyed are considering increasing their allocation to real assets over the next year, and pension funds ...