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BT confirms changes to super business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2021
... sufficient scale. Also piled into the new division was its wealth platforms, investments business, general and life insurance, and auto finance. In August this year the sale of the life insurance business was announced, with Tal Dai-ichi Life Australia ...

APRA finalises framework for insurance in super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
... be required to strengthen arrangements to protect members from potential adverse outcomes caused by conflicted life insurance arrangements. This will include ongoing reviews of insurance arrangements and how they benefit members. Trustees will also have ...

Government advances adviser levy drop

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021
... its 2020-21 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement, which lays out how much it recovers from the superannuation, life insurance and financial services sectors it regulates. Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients will pay a fixed $1500 ...

Licensee chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2021
... alternative to the large institutionally owned dealer groups that dominated the landscape at the time. His career in life insurance began with MLC and later Aetna Life & Casualty. He co-founded Associated Planners in 1989, which was later sold to Challenger ...

Kelly+Partners to acquire firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2021
... Coast. A Kelly+Partners subsidiary acquired a 51% stake in the group which includes private wealth management, life insurance broking, finance broking and accounting and tax. Kelly+Partners Central Coast acquired the full fee base from the accounting ...

Plan For Life names insurance award winners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2021
... firm announced the winners of its 2021 Excellence Awards for insurers. NobleOak Life took out the Overall Direct Life Insurance Excellence Award for 2021, going up against TAL Life, HCF Life and MLC Life. NobleOak Life also won the Life Award, TPD Award ...

AMP officially exits life market

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
With the complete divestment of its equity interest in Resolution Life, AMP has officially exited the life insurance business. AMP today divested its 19.13% holding in Resolution Life for $524 million. The sale of this holding completes AMP's exit ...

Midwinter hires from Integrity Life

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... previously head of development at Integrity Life and was responsible for creating a technology ecosystem that makes life insurance more accessible. He previously spent over three years at AMP in solution architecture roles and was manager of strategy ...

Aussies in the dark over super stapling

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... Australia welcomes the stapling measure but is calling on the government to ban occupational exclusions from default life insurance in super. "Stopping the scourge of costly duplicate accounts will ultimately lead to bigger retirement savings for people ...

BOQ divests St Andrew's Insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... that phone-based sales practices of Let's Insure, a subsidiary of Select, had three times more inappropriate life insurance sales tactics than the other firms under review. BOQ acquired St. Andrew's in 2010 from the Commonwealth Bank, taking over ...