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Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... problems - but the FSC believes that the PJC has not given due consideration to early intervention on its own merit," she said. AIA Australia and New Zealand chief executive Damien Mu said while the report recognises the important role of early intervention ...

NEOS unveils underwriting and sales team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... most recently head of partnerships and operations at Affinia. Glendinning previously worked as acting state sales manager at AIA, while Leonard was acting head of sales at BT. Du Plooy's team also comprises the following business development managers ...

Advice dealer group takes out governance award

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... challenge of embedding compliance, risk, ethics and governance in their organisation." Westpac, NAB, ANZ, AMP, Commonwealth Bank, AIA and Thomson Reuters are principle members of the institute. Elders has just joined IOOF as part of the group's acquisition ...

Life insurers admit to misconduct: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... made to the Commission. In its three submissions to the Commission, Australia's largest group insurer by market share, AIA acknowledged it engaged in misconduct since 2014 by failing to provide notices to up to 100,000 customers, which meant they ...

Life insurance sector strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... acquiring 80% of MLC Life Insurance in 2015. CBA sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. The sale of CommInsure Life and Sovereign also includes a 20-year bancassurance partnership with AIA ...

Advisers divided over health programs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... satisfaction rankings for the second year in a row, while also leading the field in another six out of 12 categories measured. AIA Australia and TAL were ranked second and third respectively.

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... acquiring 80% of MLC Life Insurance in 2015. CBA sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. The sale of CommInsure Life and Sovereign also includes a 20-year bancassurance partnership with AIA ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... the life insurer as state managers for New South Wales and ACT, and Queensland respectively. Towell was in a similar role at AIA Australia as state manager of NSW and ACT prior to joining MetLife. Also from AIA Australia, White worked as a senior client ...

Group insurers pressed for resources

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... in the various elements of our industry as all of us are scrambling around trying to find those resources to do this work." AIA chief group insurance officer Stephanie Phillips also said finding talent is difficult. "Group is a niche environment. You ...

Queensland industry funds merge

HARRISON WORLEY AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... in their retirement." Currently AustSafe has a group insurance arrangement with CommInsure, which is set to be acquired by AIA - Sunsuper's group insurer.