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AMP Life awards mandate post acquisition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... AMP Life super funds are held by more than 340,000 Australians. AMP announced the completion of the sale of its life insurance business to Resolution Life today. "The appointment to AMP Life confirms Equity Trustees as the leading provider of independent ...

ClearView announces board changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... ClearView board as an independent non-executive director on 25 November 2019 and has over 30 years' experience in life insurance and wealth management. He is currently a director of Platypus Asset Management and was head of business development at RGA ...

Bank hires new wealth chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... announced a range of other operating changes including a new organisational structure. A new role of chief executive insurance product and portfolio has been created to lead insurance distribution channels. The group's current chief customer and digital ...

Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... of institutional sales Korea Brian Kim will now be Robeco's head of business development for Korea. A hire from DWS's insurance strategy and advisory business, Denis Resovac, is moving into the role of Robeco's head of insurance strategy for APAC. Robeco's ...

APRA heatmap sees members save on fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... changes in this area to take longer to manifest, and for COVID-19 to have an impact. It also doesn't account for insurance premiums. "Since publishing the heatmap last December, APRA has intensified its supervision of underperformers. It's pleasing ...

Life insurers disregard code of practice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... Life Code Compliance Committee has said that life insurers appear not to be taking their obligations under the Life Insurance Code of Practice seriously. The code came into effect in 2017, with the independent committee now publishing its second annual ...

Super fund members compensated

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... superannuation may have performed differently - either better or worse. You may have also paid a different amount for insurance within your superannuation," a notice to members reads. As at June 2019, APRA data shows smartMonday's total funds under management ...

Industry fund ups insurance premiums

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
An $8.5 billion industry superannuation fund is increasing the cost of insurance premiums paid by members. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund is upping the cost of its death and total and permanent disablement unitised cover as it ...

Job vacancies up 15%: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... with several companies in financial services looking to fill roles. SEEK data from May revealed that job ads in the insurance and superannuation sectors were down 2%, while almost every other industry saw an uptick following the easing of COVID-19 social ...

Super funds face fresh data requirements

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... trustees. The PDC will comprise of two components; the first relating to monthly reported information covering complaints, insurance, advice and operational resilience; and the second relating to quarterly reported data on liquidity, early release demographics ...