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MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
MetLife Insurance will partner Steadfast, the largest network of general insurance brokers in Australasia, to extend MetLife's group life cover to Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded ...

Suncorp completes insurance review after breaches

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
Suncorp has finalised an independent review and remediation of compliance systems across its life and general insurance businesses. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requested the remediation program in June 2013 after it received ...

Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair appointed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... 2006 to 2010 Mr Trowbridge was one of three Members of APRA's executive where he was responsible for life and general insurance and executive remuneration. He has also held senior management roles with QBE and Suncorp. In 1981 he started actuarial firm ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... the trigger as BOE governor Mark Carney explained to his audience at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries General Insurance Conference in Wales: "With many of the conditions for the economy to normalise now met, the point at which interest rates also ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... "modified best interests' duty for certain advice providers who provide advice on basic banking products or general insurance products." The Committee acknowledged that the law needs to "make clear that it is not the government's intention to reintroduce ...

YBR adds 13 branches to its network

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... net underwriter outflows of $0.36 million. "Net underwriter inflows and outflows arise as a consequence of our general insurance business and reflect a pass through of insurance premiums for clients to their respective underwriters," the company reported. ...

TOWER announces $70 million special dividend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... appropriate". "We continue to review our capital management plan following the issue of full insurance licences for our general insurance and retained life insurance businesses," Hancock said. He said that minimum solvency margin requirements had been ...

FoFA could lock advisers into licensees for life

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... are those who have risk-only insurance businesses, fee-for-service businesses, accounting fees, mortgage and general insurance businesses and SMSF fee businesses. "The value of particular financial planning businesses may be affected by this side-effect ...

Numbers don't add up at McDonald's financial planning

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... job. The budget includes monthly expenses such as US$600 on mortgage or rent, US$90 on electricity, US$100 on general insurance and US$20 on life and health insurance. But a closer look at the company's policies shows that spending US$20 per month is ...

Suncorp forced to improve compliance after ASIC review

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... 2013. Suncorp will have to improve the processes for monitoring and supervising representatives in its life and general insurance businesses, as well as reporting incidents and breaches in its insurance businesses. It will also have to work on administering ...