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Adviser number growth shoots?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
The number of advisers that have exited the industry over the past four or five years appears to have plateaued, albeit another decline in 2023, last year's figures suggest that the losses have stabilised, according to Rainmaker Information's 2024 ...

Rest nabs culture leader from Aware

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... including engineering, agribusiness, and financial services. Most recently, she served as chief people officer at life insurer NobleOak. Before that, she was the chapter lead of people experience and governance at Resolution Life Australasia. Murrell ...

Rest appoints two general managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... evolve its employee value proposition. The second appointee, Gama Ghosn, who was previously the chief people offer at insurer NobleOak, has been named general manager of people solutions and services. Ghosn will join on 21 January 2025 and be responsible ...

TAL creates consumer and growth unit

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... leader in the insurance industry. "Lexie and her team are truly focused on what Australians want and need from us as an insurer and are working to develop even clearer more targeted products and services for our direct and retail customers," he said. ...

Colonial First State completes group insurance review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... 200,000 CFS FirstChoice Employer Super, Essential Super, and FirstChoice Wholesale Personal members. AIA has served as group insurer since it took over CommInsure in 2019 and was reappointed in 2021. CFS Superannuation chief executive Kelly Power said ...

TAL creates consumer and growth division

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
The life insurer has appointed a general manager to lead its newly created consumer and growth team. Alexis Denby has taken on the role, where she will be responsible for TAL's direct and advised customer growth initiatives whilst ensuring its products ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
Total and permanent disability (TPD) claims because of mental health for Australians aged 30 to 40 increased by 732% over the past decade, according to a new report by KPMG, commissioned by the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI). Although the ...

Firms treat CSLR as 'insurance policy': FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... The role of professional indemnity (PI) insurance in the compensation process was also put under the microscope. The PI insurer for Dixon Advisory, for example, paid just $16 million in compensation. However, Dixon Advisory victims are expected to receive ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
Professional reputations could be harmed if the government does not distinctly delineate between its proposed new class of advisers (NCAs) and financial advisers, the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) warns in anticipation of the looming ...

Lack of action on menopause driving gender inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... individuals aged between 35 and 64 experiencing perimenopause or menopause, in what is one of the largest studies by a local insurer on those experiencing menopause. MetLife found 84% of those experiencing menopause and are seeing it impact their career ...