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MetLife welcomes new group product head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... Dean Mulheron will lead MetLife's group product design and oversee product development and strategy across the group insurance portfolio. Mulheron replaces Stephen Sefton who was appointed to the role in January and departed in June. Mulheron joins MetLife ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... its May draft report, the Commission said it undertook its own modelling into the fiscal cost and benefits of group insurance that counters research from KPMG and Rice Warner. The paper cited research from KPMG which stated if the current insurance in ...

Raiz to launch group insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
A partnership between Raiz Invest and Swiss Re will launch new products attempting to disrupt the group insurance market. Raiz, the micro-investing platform, announced it is helping develop a tailored life insurance product within superannuation that ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... the product. I'm thrilled to join at this time of intense development," he said. Integrity currently offers group insurance and is piloting retail products with a group of specialist insurance advisers. Managing director Chris Powell told Financial ...

Industry fund drops life premiums, pension fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
A $1.5 billion industry superannuation fund is reducing select insurance premiums after renegotiating its group insurance mandate. It also slashed the administration fee on its pension account. Under a new group cover deal with MetLife, REI Super has ...

MetLife scores group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
MetLife has won a group insurance mandate from an $8.8 billion superannuation fund. Tasplan appointed MetLife to deliver insurance offerings to its 145,000 members, replacing incumbent group insurer CommInsure. Tasplan chief operations officer Nick ...

Royal Commission tables life insurance policy questions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... insured? If the current regulatory requirements are not sufficient, what should be changed?" they asked. In the group insurance segment, they asked if universal minimum coverage requirements, key definitions, and key exclusions should be prescribed for ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... agreement; and Engaging in misconduct by not benchmarking the performance of CFSGAM and CommInsure as providers of group insurance and investment management services respectively and retaining their services. Avanteos, another related trustee within ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... retail life insurance drove the substantial increase in profitability in the 2017 financial year, KPMG said, while group insurance remained flat after recovering in 2015. After-tax net profit increased by $627 million to $1.31 billion. Eighteen out of ...

Group insurers pressed for resources

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... resources as they race to meet the Federal Government's July 2019 deadline to cull the default opt-ins for group insurance. MetLife head of reinsurance and regulatory affairs James Carey said the scrutiny is touching all elements of the business ...