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Morningstar partners to drive adviser ESG education

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
... Northern Trust Asset Management's FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds are also supporting the initiative, assisting in underwriting the program launch and course development. "The landscape of investing is changing and data extending beyond traditional ...

ANZ Wealth enhances life insurance process

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... time up to 48 hours. The OneCare Pre-Assessment Wizard aims to assist financial advisers understand the potential underwriting outcomes for certain medical circumstances timely and efficiently. ANZ Wealth head of life insurance Gerard Kerr said advisers ...

MLC Life partners to accelerate underwriting process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
The underwriting process is about to get easier for customers of MLC Life Insurance as the firm becomes the first in Australia to offer UK underwriting rules engine UnderwriteMe. Partnering with the engine's proprietary owner Pacific Life Re, MLC Life ...

Ausbil adds key MicroCap team hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... having previously served as chief executive, asset management and reinsurance for Insurance Australia Group and chief underwriting officer, international for ACE Tempest Reinsurance. All three of Ausbil's new recruits commence in July 2017.

Executive hires at SCOR Global Life

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... help grow its local operations. New chief underwriter, Debra Pitcher, will be responsible for the company's life underwriting strategy in Australia and New Zealand, focusing on developing propositions to clients and the end customer. Pitcher has about ...

ANZ appoints chief underwriter

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... appointed as acting chief underwriter following John Leonard's retirement in March, having previously been group underwriting and operations manager and senior manager, insurance transformation since joining ANZ in 2013. Before that, Tilocca held multiple ...

The changing face of underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... estimates more accurate than traditional methods. Lapetus Life Event Solutions recently developed CHRONOS, an end-to-end underwriting platform that predicts a person's life expectancy by scanning hundreds of points on their face to extract information. ...

Life consumers influenced by premium pricing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... statement of advice and product disclosure statements consumers often don't read or understand. A policy that has limited underwriting at the time of purchase means the insurer asks only a few health and lifestyle questions, but will complete the underwriting ...

Review life insurance ahead of super reforms: BT

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... years. The sum insured under the Future Insurability Benefit for instance, can be increased without further medical underwriting when certain life events occur such as marriage, birth, taking out or increasing a mortgage, salary increase or death of ...

Insurtech here to stay: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... most likely to dominate, the report said, particularly in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Claims and underwriting continue to be an attractive area for insurtech companies - which have the highest market potential and chances of success ...