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CommInsure life insurance ads misleading: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
... insurer pay $300,000 to a community group after ASIC raised concerns about misleading advertisements for two of its life insurance policies. An investigation between mid-2013 to March 2016 found Total Care Plan (sold via financial advisers) and Simple ...

Industry split on life insurance cover: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
Whether or not superannuation funds should stop charging life insurance cover after 13 months without contributions has divided the industry, Financial Standard's weekly survey results show. Forty-nine percent of respondents said it's only fair superannuation ...

First State Super appoints head of digital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... directly to chief digital officer Mary Murphy. Racheha brings more than 20 years' experience across the retail, health insurance and financial services sectors. Prior to Westpac, Racheha also held senior roles with Bupa Australia, MBF, Woolworths and ...

Spring FG acquires $200m dealer group

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... Today was established in 2008 and has about 40 authorised representatives with an additional $9.5 million in in-force insurance premiums. The dealer group operates in Western Australia (where its head office is located), South Australia, Victoria, New ...

Super life code released

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
The Insurance in Superannuation Working Group is urging superannuation trustees to sign up to its voluntary life insurance code of practice, which will come into effect 1 July 2018. To eschew account balance erosion, super trustees under the code will ...

J.P. Morgan secures $3.5bn custody mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... position as Australia's largest provider of custodial services, J.P. Morgan has won a mandate to manage $3.5 billion in insurance investment assets following a competitive tender process. Genworth Group, which offers mortgage lending insurance through ...

APRA unveils proposed RSE reform package

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... is ramping up its scrutiny of the performance and efficiency of RSE's business operations - particularly investments, insurance benefits, scale, product features and fund expenditure, and how these areas will directly impact outcomes for members. In ...

Elders enables greater access to advice in central NSW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... joining Elders FP, giving them the opportunity to forge referral networks across Elders Home Loans, Real Estate, General Insurance and the branch network," he said. Russell said that since joining the ANZ-aligned dealer group she has been impressed with ...

AMP flags departures in distribution restructure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
AMP has restructured its sales team to align with its wealth management and insurance businesses. The move will create specialist roles which will better align the broker and adviser bank sales teams, an AMP spokesperson told Financial Standard. Of ...

AMP names new chief risk officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... Re. AMP recently appointed former CommInsure executive manager of life claims, Vicky Galanis, as a senior manager of insurance governance. Prior to that, she was head of individual insurance claims at AXA. Galanis' appointment comes off the back of AMP ...