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AIA Australia appoints CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
AIA Australia chief executive officer Peter Crewe is set to take up a new role based in Hong Kong, A and the insurer will have a new chief executive starting August 1, 2014. AIA Australia general manager of life insurance Damien Mu has been appointed ...

Former Future Fund MD joins Qantas Super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
Industry stalwart Paul Costello has been appointed as a director on the Qantas Super Board. He replaces General Sir Peter Cosgrove, who stepped down from the boards of Qantas and Qantas Super last January to become Australia's Governor-General. Costello ...

AIA Australia re-enters direct insurance market

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
AIA Australia has signed a deal with Bendigo Bank and it will provide direct insurance to its customers for five years. The insurer has partnered with the bank to launch Bendigo SmartCover, a life insurance product that consumers can buy through the ...

AIA Australia launches daily risk information for planners

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Life insurer AIA Australia has launched a new administrative tool that will provide daily risk 'Datafeeds' for XPLAN to assist in the management of life insurance policies. The risk 'Datafeeds' contain application and policy information from AIA Australia. ...

TAL takes over from AMP as biggest life insurer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
TAL has taken over from AMP/AXA as Australia's biggest life insurer after years of market dominance by the latter, research by DEXX&R has shown. The Life Analysis Report showed that TAL's in-force premiums for its total risk business had reached $1.87 ...

AFA Foundation appoints AIA exec as new chair

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has appointed AIA Australia head of retail Pina Sciarrone as chairperson of the AFA foundation. The Foundation encourages AFA members to raise funds and awareness for the organisation's charity partners. The ...

MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... 10.3% in the year to December 2013. MetLife is Australia's fourth largest group insurer by market share, behind AIA Australia (24.1%), TAL (22.8%) and CommInsure (13.3%). Plan For Life attributed MetLife and NAB / MLC annual growth of group risk premium ...

AIA launches fitness program available via advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
AIA Australia has launched a fitness program that will be sold to clients who purchase an insurance policy via financial advisers. The AIA Vitality program was launched in Sydney this morning at the Incentivising a Healthier Australia national forum. ...

AIA pays advisers to move to hybrid commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
AIA Australia will pay advisers who move to a hybrid commission model, despite the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) concerns on inappropriate insurance switching. The insurer said that a hybrid structure could increase the value ...

Risk Premium inflows up 9.6% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
Risk Premium inflows increased 9.6% year on year in the 12 months to 31 December, according to the latest figures from Plan For Life. AIA Australia led the way with inflows increasing by 20.1% during the year. BT / Westpac saw the second highest inflows ...