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Sequoia expects earnings hit from Shield, First Guardian

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... Guardian but did not detail how much. The impairment is expected to include a provision for potential claims under the insurance excess payable under its professional indemnity insurance. It will also include impairment of intangible assets pertaining ...

TAL enhances TPD offering, support for self-employed customers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
TAL has introduced a new total and permanent disability (TPD) support option to its flagship retail product and implemented additional support for self-employed customers around income protection. The integrations follow TAL's partnership with SANE ...

Mulino wants PII to step up to make CSLR sustainable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
The professional indemnity insurance (PII) sector will be forced to play a bigger role in making the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) sustainable, Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino proposes, as the Opposition slams the scheme for "constantly ...

ASIC suspends MW Planning AFSL over missing responsible manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... MW Planning must remain a member of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority and maintain professional indemnity insurance cover, ASIC said. MW Planning has the right to apply to the Administrative Review Tribunal for a review. MWL Financial Services ...

Super moves: AustralianSuper, UniSuper, Team Super, CFS, TAL

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... team. Perkins previously worked in Australia's superannuation sector at Hostplus, dealing with claims for health insurance brokers at the fund's Melbourne office. "It's an extremely exciting time to be joining the business, with ambitious ...

AMP to pay $29m to settle class action

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... financial advisers breached their fiduciary and statutory duties to an estimated 100,000 clients. The AMP commissions and insurance class action was commenced in the Federal Court of Victoria against AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP), Charter Financial ...

Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... Madeleine Barrow has left Resolution Life Australasia for HESTA, following Resolution Life's merger with MLC Life Insurance to form Acenda. Barrow most recently worked as a portfolio manager overseeing parts of the insurer's $30 billion mandate ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

Challenger to take on TelstraSuper pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... partnership with Challenger with built-in protections to ensure capital lasted for a members' life expectancy. The group insurance policy that underpins the product is issued by Challenger Life. TelstraSuper assured members that pension payments will ...

Royal London AM launches four new funds locally

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... manages $378 billion for clients in the UK and select international locations and is part of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. The firm entered the Australian market in 2017, but ...