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MLC appoints head of onsale advice product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... for the business since it received its life license in July 2006. Prior to that position, Barnes worked in senior life insurance roles at Metlife Australia and Zurich Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology from Macquarie University ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... products should be phased out. The FPA said the problem is that fee-for-advice payments on risk products could make life insurance too expensive for clients and argued that the miselling problems that have occurred among superannuation sales do not exist ...

Commission on risk products should continue: FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... for commission payments for risk products to continue, citing fee-for-advice payments on risk products could make life insurance too expensive for clients. According to a press statement, the FPA Board confirmed that the first five of the FPA's six Financial ...

Magill joins Matrix

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... advice on superannuation, pre-retirement, and retirement planning. The firm also provides personal and business life insurance, savings and investment plans and estate planning services. Her repertoire of achievements include being awarded a Paul Harris ...

Babson closes five CLOs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... the transaction is a "win for all parties involved". Jefferies Group., Babson Capital and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) maintain an active strategic relationship, including their joint ownership of Jefferies Finance, an originator ...

ING enhances OneCare

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
ING Australia has improved its life insurance product, OneCare, that allows policy holders to increase their cover by up to 25 per cent on the amount insured on every third year policy anniversary without a medical check-up. The insurance firms 'future ...

AXA to launch blended premium insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... premium pricing approach across its term life, trauma and total permanent disablement (TPD) insurance suite to make life insurance more affordable. Stephen Rosengren, head of individual life at AXA Australia, said many of the group's advisers are struggling ...

Underinsurance to hit crisis point

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra. NATSEM's Dr. Simon Kelly released the findings at the IFSA Life Insurance Conference in Sydney this morning. IFSA is the industry body behind Lifewise, an insurance industry-wide campaign to ...

Prudential back in town

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
Financial services giant Prudential will be the new owner of AIA Group (AIA), the Australasian life insurance businesses of AIG Group, in a deal worth US$35.5 billion - a move that potentially brings the Prudential name back in Australia after 12 years ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... package for Greece. The market got a lift Monday after American International Group Inc. agreed to sell its Asian life insurance business to Britain's Prudential PLC for $US35.5 billion ($A39.53 billion). It's the biggest deal yet made by the insurer ...