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New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... ANZIFF. Also partnering in various ways is QBE, Macquarie Bank, MunichRe, TAS, EY, AUB Group, The Fold Legal, Stone & Chalk, Suncorp, IAG, Envest, RAC Insurance and Oliver Wyman. With its key objective being to identify and promote other Australian insurtech ...

TAL maintains life insurance market lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... reported increases in inflows except for CommInsure, which saw risk premiums decline by 11.4% year-on-year to $1.6 billion; Suncorp reported minimal change of -0.4%. Zurich recorded the highest annual growth rate, jumping 58.5% to $664.8 million in risk ...

Suncorp appoints new wealth and life intermediaries head in executive reshuffle

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
Suncorp has named a new head of wealth and life intermediaries. Dan Waller, who has been acting head since June, has now been appointed permanently to the role. He has more than 28 years' experience in the financial services industry, joining Asteron ...

Tower lodges cross appeal to NZ High Court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
After having a proposed takeover by Suncorp subsidiary Vero Insurance declined by New Zealand regulators, Tower has lodged a cross appeal against the decision. In a statement to the ASX, Tower advised that it has now formally lodged its own cross appeal ...

Suncorp hails diversity amid profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
Suncorp chair Ziggy Switkowski praised the group's 49% female leadership while announcing a 3% boost in net profit to $1.075 billion. The update on the banking and wealth management firm's diversity figures forms part of Suncorp's new corporate responsibility ...

Aussie banks cleared of Wells Fargo-type conduct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... international firm Wells Fargo. The audits, undertaken by ASIC in December 2016 of the big four plus BOQ, Citibank, HSBC and Suncorp, found no evidence of misconduct in the banks' sales practices, and confirmed current controls were adequate to prevent ...

Suncorp Tower takeover denied by competition watchdog

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Fears that "substantially lessened" competition in New Zealand's personal insurance market would result from Suncorp's takeover of Tower has led to the New Zealand Commerce Commission denying the proposed merger. In a statement commission chairman Mark ...

AMP Capital appoints independent directors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... services and has held executive roles in the industry in Australia and overseas. He was most recently chief executive at Suncorp Group's banking and wealth division for close to three years and prior to that was chief financial officer. Before joining ...

Two appointments for BTFG life business

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... firm's service delivery to advisers. Bower has more than 20 years' experience in life insurance, having recently worked at Suncorp for less than two years as an executive manager of life insurance, as well as optimisation and distribution. He originally ...

Steady increase for life insurance premium flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... TAL (16.7%) maintained its market lead, closely followed by AIA (14.5%), AMP (12.2%) and MLC (12%). Zurich, MetLife and Suncorp hold an equivalent amount of the market (4.1%).