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Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... head of Australian fundamental equities, and senior portfolio manager, Australian fundamental equities, respectively. New MetLife hires to drive growth spurt - MetLife Insurance, the Australian arm of the US giant, has brought its total number of 2015 ...

New MetLife hires to drive growth spurt

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
MetLife Insurance, the Australian arm of the US giant, has brought its total number of 2015 hires to 25 as it gears up for growth in this market. In the year to date, MetLife has announced 10 senior hires, all moving to the company from executive roles ...

Life insurance risk inflows reach $14.2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... recorded by AIA at 24.2% to $1.8 billion. This was followed by TAL (17.9% to $2.2 billion); BT/Westpac (15% to $837 million); MetLife (10.1% to 541.8 million); and OnePath (9.7% to $1.4 billion). Plan For Life said new premium sales were little changed ...

MetLife to roll out rehab program for disability claimants

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
MetLife Australia is trialling a rehabilitation program for disability claimants with physical and psychological disorders. The Reactivate Program was developed by enRich Training & Development chief executive Ian Stephens and is designed to, in a MetLife ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
The market share consolidation of Australia's four biggest wholesale insurers (TAL, AIA Australia, CommInsure and Metlife) is offset by declining profits in the long-term, according to Rice Warner's Wholesale Risk Insurance Report. The "big four" group ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... inflows by 25% and 29% respectively, AMP - due its small group risk market footprint - grew its premium inflows by just 6%. MetLife, by contrast and despite holding just a 3.9% market share, experienced explosive premium inflow growth of 105%. Explaining ...

Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... of that she said Google is already working with eight insurers authorised to handle transactions - a list that includes MetLife, an insurer which is simultaneously pushing into direct markets following its 2014 trialing of shopping centre life insurance ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... solutions to longevity risk and Challenger has seen a considerable uptake in its lifetime annuities. The only setback was MetLife's sudden retreat from the retirement income space. Self-managed super funds The SMSF market continues to grow at an exponential ...

Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... $510 million, while MLC's were $243 million. Other life companies that were in the red in APRA's last set of figures were MetLife (-$50 million) and Swiss Re Life (-$137 million), along with reinsurers Reinsurance Group of America (-$71 million) and ...

MetLife US proactive lobbying lesson for Aust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Australian financial institutions looking for ways to creatively counter regulatory overreach should look to MetLife in the US that has set up a website called The Regulation Resource Centre to enlist the help of stakeholders and facilitate positive ...