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Profit boost for CBA, ups remediation bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... State Investments (CFSI). The advice class action relates to Commonwealth Financial Planning, Financial Wisdom and CommInsure, which alleges that advisers failed to act in customers' best interest when recommending life insurance products. ASIC is ...

Commonwealth FP under review, partially offloaded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... financial advice plays an important role in helping Australians improve their financial wellbeing." CBA first sold CommInsure Life to AIA in 2019 and has now received a total of $2.3 billion of proceeds made up of $2.1 billion in cash and $240 million ...

ASIC consults on anti-hawking rules

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... life and consumer credit insurance sales from 13 January 2020. This followed enforcement action against firms such as CommInsure and ClearView. In 2019 it won a $700,000 penalty against CommInsure, after the firm plead guilty to 87 counts of unlawful ...

New chair for AIA Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... been chair for 12 years, now she will serve as chair of the AIA New Zealand board only. Peter Yates, previous chair of CommInsure which AIA acquired, will be chairing the AIA Australia board. "Having served as deputy chair of AIA and chair of CommInsure ...

Court orders new group definition in CBA advice class action

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... qualify inclusion of advice clients who suffered a loss. The applicants wanted everyone who was advised by CFP or FWL on CommInsure products since 21 August 2014, regardless of whether or not they paid excess premiums or the way they received the advice ...

CBA offloads general insurance arm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Commonwealth Bank has announced the sale of CommInsure General Insurance to the Hollard Group after divesting CommInsure Life and BoCommLife. Announced this morning, the sale agreement includes a 15-year strategic alliance that provides Hollard with ...

AIA executive joins MLC Life

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... Piri Kularajah was at AIA for nearly two years and in his role was responsible for the completion of AIA's purchase of CommInsure Life. He initially joined AIA as executive manager - portfolio actuary and business partner. He was previously in the same ...

Premiums to increase at ESSSuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... a 2020 open market tender, ESSSuper elected to reappoint Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, formerly known as CommInsure, as its group insurer until 30 June 2023. AIA's acquisition of CommInsure was approved by the Federal Court on 1 April 2021. ...

GQG Partners adds to team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... BlackWatch Partners, head of client risk and compliance at Treasury Group and previously held compliance management roles at CommInsure, EY, Colonial First State and State Street. Smith is a certified compliance professional with the GRC (Governance ...

AMP Capital appoints NZ head of investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... AMP Capital has appointed a new head of investments for New Zealand, adding the former head of investment strategy at CommInsure. Michael Gray has stepped into the role on an interim basis as AMP Capital progresses its strategy to explore sale or partnership ...