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Board changes at Crestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... audit and risk committee, and has served on the board of law firm Freehills and Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance companies. Chief operating officer Michelle Inns will step down as a director following Crestone's annual general meeting in ...

TAL maintains life insurance market lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
TAL continues to hold the largest share of the $16.1 billion life insurance market in the 12 months to June, figures from Strategic Insight show. TAL recorded $2.9 billion in risk premiums, closely followed by AIA Australia with $2.3 billion in which ...

ANZ splits OnePath businesses, revamps life insurance team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... groups to IOOF Holdings for $975 million; and it announced several senior internal appointments in retaining its life insurance business. IOOF has agreed to take over ANZ Wealth Management comprising RI Advice, Millennium3, Financial Services Partners ...

Westpac faces class action over life insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
Westpac is facing a class action for allegedly charging higher life insurance premiums via its network of financial planners. Shine Lawyers filed the class action against the bank and its subsidiary, Westpac Life Insurance Services, on behalf of customers ...

Super changes increasing adviser workload: Financial Standard poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... Financial Standard weekly readership survey asks if the Banking and Executive Accountability Regime should extend to life insurance companies..

MLC Life enriches health and wellbeing program

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
MLC Life Insurance is offering discounted premiums to customers that take at least 37,500 steps each week. As part of an enhancement to its MLC On Track program, MLC Life is offering 5% off premiums for new customers for the first 12 months when they ...

Advisers must provide more than financial health checks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... aiming for," Haskew said. Advisers also need to know as much as possible about their client's health when advising on insurance as medical risk factors hinder eligibility for certain types of cover. They also help inform wealth protection strategies. ...

AFA keeps financial literacy front of mind

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... family home; more than 7.5 million Australians have a credit card; and 13.9 million working age Australians have life insurance, meaning the opportunities, both technology and adviser driven, can only increase. At the same, O'Dwyer knows the complexity ...

Suncorp appoints new wealth and life intermediaries head in executive reshuffle

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
... experience in the financial services industry, joining Asteron Life in July 2014 as a national key account and group insurance manager. Suncorp has also consolidated three business units resulting in a series of senior management overhaul. The company ...

Fee models an art, not a science

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
Less than three months remain until the Life Insurance Framework becomes commonplace for advisers and experts say there's still time to review or reconsider advice pricing options. The AFA 2017 National Adviser Conference will hear from four industry ...