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Aon, Willis Towers Watson terminate merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2021
... Willis Towers Watson is off, with Aon paying WTW a US$1 billion termination fee. In a statement, the companies said it was a mutual agreement - though the decision was forced by lack of regulatory approval in the US. The US Department of Justice had ...

Frontier partners with due diligence platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... before and managers benefit from the system efficiency it can deliver to them. The fact that DiligenceVault can provide mutual benefits for all parties was really appealing to Frontier." DiligenceVault's other partners include Goldman Sachs Asset Management ...

Lifespan appoints compliance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... consultant for risk and compliance at Assured Support, and the head of risk management and commercial partnerships at Avant Mutual. He also worked at KPMG Australia, Total Financial Solutions and ANZ. Between 2011 and 2014, Caspar was at Lifespan working ...

New chair for AIA Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... Immunology at ANU and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication. He is a director of Linfox and Mutual Trust. Yates had a long career in investment banking, including 15 years at Macquarie and was managing director of Oceania ...

AIA appoints head of strategic partnerships

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... head of group life consulting services at IFS Insurance Services. She has also worked as a product manager at AXA/National Mutual. In her new role at AIA, Hancox will be a part of the group distribution team. AIA said it has recently done a strategic ...

Industry split on paid vaccine leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... has received just 24 responses. Of those, just one has agreed to what the union is specifically asking for; Australian Mutual Bank is providing employees with two days of paid leave when they receive a vaccine, allowing one day off for each shot. The ...

Court orders new group definition in CBA advice class action

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... Financial Wisdom recommended their clients take out life insurance policies through former CBA subsidiary Commonwealth Mutual Life Assurance (now owned by AIA), when cheaper premiums for similar policies were available. The group wants to be paid the ...

Teachers Mutual launches neobank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Australia's largest mutual bank has launched a digital bank to meet the needs of essential workers and appointed a chief digital bank officer. Hiver has been created for essential workers in education, emergency services and healthcare sectors and combines ...

Premiums to increase at ESSSuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... to 70. The definition of TPD will be broadened. After a 2020 open market tender, ESSSuper elected to reappoint Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, formerly known as CommInsure, as its group insurer until 30 June 2023. AIA's acquisition of CommInsure ...

Magellan launches FuturePay

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... in cash and is a discretionary trust with FuturePay as the beneficiary and a Magellan entity as trustee. "It acts like a mutual fund as there is an upfront contribution on investment and has ongoing contributions from investment outperformance," Cairns ...