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MetLife appoints head of CX

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... MetLife's super funds and partners to optimise the experience for its members and to help realise its vision of a life insurance experience that is efficient and caring. She has 20 years' experience across customer experience and operations in ...

PPS Mutual bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... manager at ING. "Steve is a valuable addition to the PPS Mutual team who brings extensive knowledge within the life insurance industry. This will be of great benefit in continuing to strengthen our partnerships with selected financial advisers in the ...

ASIC bans adviser again

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... revealed he failed to obtain adequate information from clients about their personal circumstances and recommended new insurance products without considering existing policies. Additionally, Aujla recommended insurance cover based on what his clients ...

OnePath enhances OneView Life

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... new tools for advisers and their clients." OnePath said more initiatives were on the way to reinforce the benefits of insurance among clients and reward them for choosing OnePath Life. Soon, clients will be able to make basic changes to their cover ...

Industry fund overhauls fee structure

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... part of the Protecting Your Super changes. Death and TPD cover, and death only cover rose by 7.7%. Salary continuance insurance and temporary salary continuance premiums also increased by 8.3%.

What is holding Aussie robo advisers back?

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... example]," Dunnin said. Rainmaker research also found that most robo advisers in Australia were not set up to offer life insurance advice or to be used by self-managed super funds. "These portfolios are assembled under managed discretionary account authorisations ...

Risk advisory firms merge

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... specialising in risk will merge to become an advisory business with about $55 million in premiums under management. MBS Insurance (MBS) and Complete Risk Analysis (CRA) will join forces in a bid to increase scale and improve efficiencies. The newly merged ...

APRA hits Allianz over risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... Allianz to quickly and effectively implement its planned remediation work. We also want to send a message to the broader insurance and superannuation industries that APRA expects the same high standards of risk management, including for non-financial ...

NEOS Life partners with insurance tech firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... API-driven architecture and proven local track record has seen Ebix OneOffice successfully implemented at four new local life insurance sites over the past six years." It is a complete solution that provides speed to market with reduced risk, he added. ...

ATO warns of SMSF concentration risk

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... including consideration of risk, return, liquidity, the ability to discharge liabilities, and if the fund should hold insurance for members.