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Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... having to rethink how we better serve customers in the decades ahead." CALI is now working to develop an industry action plan for mental health, supporting long-term affordability and sustainability while better supporting claimants. This involves a ...

Public feedback welcomed for Life Code improvements

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
... the first of many key considerations in the consultation. Last week, CALI stated that it is developing an industry action plan for mental health claims over the next 12 months, a move to ensure all claimants are assessed appropriately. Some questions ...

Insurers design framework for dealing with mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) is developing an industry action plan for mental health claims over the next 12 months, working with an expert panel from related fields to ensure claimants are assessed appropriately. The framework will ...

UK regulators abandon DEI reporting push

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) will no longer introduce new diversity and inclusion rules for financial services organisations, claiming they wish to "avoid additional burdens on firms at this time." ...

MLC Life recruits merger specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... large transformation and integration programs, most recently at the Bank of Queensland. He led the lenders remedial action plan, a 4-year program to improve financial resilience, operational resilience and risk culture. But he was recruited directly ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
Sanlam Private Wealth, the Australian arm of the South African Sanlam Group, has admitted to breaching licensee obligations by "failing to adequately supervise" its authorised representatives and corporate authorised representatives (CARs), following ...

Trustee valuation processes 'concerning': APRA review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
Many superannuation trustees have been told they must improve their valuation governance practices, with APRA finding just 11 have dedicated valuation committees while others involve staff members whose remuneration is tied to asset values in the process. ...

Cbus lacks stringent director, expenditure policies: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... public yesterday. In all, Deloitte has made 26 recommendations, which Cbus says it will now work on developing an action plan to address, as required under the licence conditions applied by APRA. One of the key recommendations made by Deloitte was the ...

Retail funds drive down admin fees: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... mergers/SFTs commit to appropriate levels of operational synergies, timing/phasing of synergy realisation and a disciplined action plan to achieve these operational synergies," the report said. "The operational synergy/benefit profile of the merger needs ...

Financial services firms concerned about attracting staff

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... talented professionals." Gorton said businesses can overcome talent acquisition challenges by developing a strategic action plan. The research found that the perceived reasons for Australian companies' inability to attract talent this year differs between ...