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AIA builds team to focus on adviser distribution

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... joins from Zurich Financial Services, where he was a business development manager. Clayton-Ford will become the state underwriting and operations manager for Western and South Australia. She has over 20 years' experience in underwriting and has held ...

Planners continue insurer switches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... insurers each - up from 3.7 in 2014. Investment Trends senior analyst, King Loong Choi, said a focus on improving underwriting by some insurers over the last year has made it "an essential component of success in the acquisition of new relationships" ...

Industry fund encourages members to claim insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... of its members worked in the high-risk energy and resources industry. Energy Super's insurers are MLC and Beazley Underwriting.

AustralianSuper builds in-house global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... He added: "That opens up some direct investment opportunities that might be IPOs, taking significant placements or underwriting equity issues."

Big four prepared for APRA capital adequacy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... that the bank had already "taken a number of significant steps to boost our capital position, including partially underwriting the First Half 2015 dividend reinvestment plan and the recent sale of shares in BT Investment Management."

TAL to invest $150 million in adviser support

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... COIN; adviser-personalised insurance marketing collateral; and automatic client cover upgrades without additional underwriting. TAL has created a website, talscommitment.com.au, to "be transparent and held accountable to our commitments," according to ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... banking and general insurance and will aim to set out best practice standards for insurers, including in relation to underwriting and claims management. The government will also consider measures to widen advisers' approved product lists by July 1, 2016. ...

Kaplan launches online insurance courses

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... enter the industry, and they cover the following qualifications: Certificate IV in Life Insurance (Claims, Sales and Underwriting stream), Certificate IV in General Insurance (Claims, Sales and Generalist stream) and Tier 1 Insurance Broking. Each course ...

AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... of health via a new product recently launched by AIA Australia. The life insurer's new Business Safeguard Forward Underwriting Benefit (FUB) will allow business owners to increase their life, total permanent disability (TPD) and crisis recovery insurance ...

FPA proposes risk commission cap

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... transparent manner. Given that most of the work involved in putting insurance policies in place through a SOA and underwriting is in the establishment phase, this would preclude support for a flat or level commission structure," FPA chief executive Mark ...