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Plan For Life names insurance award winners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2021
The research and analytics firm announced the winners of its 2021 Excellence Awards for insurers. NobleOak Life took out the Overall Direct Life Insurance Excellence Award for 2021, going up against TAL Life, HCF Life and MLC Life. NobleOak Life also ...

Integrity Life hires product GM

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... Bailison said he is excited to be joining the team. "Life insurance is at a crossroads and there is a huge opportunity for insurers to support partners and customers by building a digital ecosystem that will improve the speed, ease and transparency of ...

Link names head of insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... consolidation, Angelico's experience will help Link develop solutions that are in line with the changing needs of insurers and fund members. Theresa Mills recently joined the firm as global head of risk and compliance for RSS. Mills hailed from ASIC ...

Christian Super enhances insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... sophisticated we are able to get with those analytics, that gives us a strength and proposition to be able to engage with insurers," he said. It's just one of several changes Christian Super is making, with another being the recategorisation of occupational ...

APRA readies new super fund remuneration regime

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... soundness in the past." "With just over a year to go until the new prudential standard takes effect, we expect banks, insurers and superannuation licensees to be preparing now to ensure they are ready to comply with the new requirements," he said. Next ...

Actuaries Institute devises director skills checklist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... that two core capabilities in insurance - claims management and underwriting - are lacking on the boards of major life insurers, likely leading to poor claims experience. "Irrespective of their domain skills, directors need to have the capability and ...

Industry mixed over FSC advice framework

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... it. It was championed by the FSC whose members, to this day, are primarily fund managers, superannuation funds and life insurers. Advisers are right to question the FSC's motives." Trapnell also wants to see the FSC propose the separation of risk advisers ...

FSC to ban occupational exclusions

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... consultation with regulators including the ACCC. "This 12-month transition period is designed to enable trustees and life insurers to re-negotiate existing group life policies that are currently in place, and for trustees to engage with members," the ...

Consumers lose out on IP changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... billion in losses over the past five years, meaning certain benefits will be removed or reduced on new policies. Life insurers such as TAL and ClearView have recently launched new income protection products in response to the reforms. Meanwhile, NobleOak's ...

TAL releases income protection range

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
... put forth several changes that the life insurance industry must implement for income protection insurance. It gave life insurers more time to have new policy contract terms in place by 1 October 2022. Clark said: "This is an important piece of work for ...