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Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... AMP (eight months) and Westpac (three months) take the longest to process death claims within group insurance, while TAL and AIA Australia are the most efficient (four weeks each), according to the ASIC and APRA analysis. As for TPD claims in group insurance ...

AIA Australia adds innovation lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
AIA Australia has announced the appointment of a new head of innovation, joining from HESTA. Kelly Smith will join AIA to oversee the development and implementation of innovation capability and culture across Australia and New Zealand. Smith has over ...

TAL goes back-to-back at AFA awards

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... Sydney recently. The life insurer took home the top gong as Platinum Winner of the AFA Life Company of the Year Award, beating AIA, OnePath Life and Zurich to the prize. The awards recognised the life insurance sector for its contribution to the advice ...

Life risk commissions must also go: Hayne

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... TAL $840 million, Westpac $697 million (plus $158 million in grandfathered commissions on life insurance in super products), AIA paid $690 million, CommInsure paid $460 million, AMP paid $380 million and Zurich paid $113 million. Opposition to abolishing ...

NEOS Life expands to the west coast

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
Retail life insurance provider NEOS Life is expanding in Western Australia with the help of three former AIA Australia staff. Reon Botha will lead the Western Australian sales team as state manager. He joined from AIA Australia where he was a senior ...

TAL and Zurich lead inflows, CommInsure lags: Strategic Insights

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... MetLife (14.5%) and OnePath (5.7%) recorded well above-average percentage increases in annual inflows, Strategic Insights said. AIA Australia ($1.9bn), TAL ($1.7bn) and MetLife ($721m) hold the biggest market share of the group insurance sector. Strategic ...

Planning firm among healthiest Australian workplaces

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
Financial services companies fared well in AIA's latest healthiest workplace survey, with a 21-year-old firm recognised as Australia's healthiest small workplace. The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, planning firm Announcer and Mercer are all ...

New super fund to secure female financial security

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... savings. In doing so, it has partnered with Future Super as investment manager and promoter while Diversa serves as trustee. AIA is the group insurer. Verve Super also seeks to boost the financial literacy of women by providing free financial coaching ...

CBA investigates possible privacy breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... identified as part of data segregation work undertaken by the bank in preparation for the sale of its life insurance business to AIA. As such, a review was commenced in August 2018. CBA said a review of files to ensure no unauthorised access of data ...

Pilot program to boost AIA staff mental health

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
A new corporate health program trialled at AIA will allow the life insurer's staff to track their mental health progress. AIA employees are trialling a new corporate health program from mental health technology company Medibio, which allows the ...