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Australian Unity chief retires

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... $1 billion of merger, divestment, and acquisition activity. Divestments included the sale of its pharmacy and general insurance businesses, the $155.5 million offload of Grand United Corporate Health to nib, and, most recently, the handover of Australian ...

ART appoints insurance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... decisions. With over 28 years in the financial services industry, he is a seasoned leader with deep expertise across general insurance, life insurance and superannuation. Before arriving at ART in 2020, Finney spent 12 years at Suncorp Life, most recently ...

Half of advice, super complaints result in no remedy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... firms that are required to report under the IDR, ASIC said there were over 4.7 million complaints reported. General insurance products were subject to the most complaints (33% of all complaints), followed by credit products (22%) and deposit-taking products ...

APRA reorganises as it sets sights on superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... general, life and private health insurance). From September 2, the two frontline supervision divisions will be a general insurance and banking division, and a life insurance, private health insurance and superannuation division. In addition, APRA will ...

Sequoia ends FY24 with 350 advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... Financial Group (FNX) for 500,000 ordinary shares in FNX. In July, it entered into an agreement to sell the general insurance broking businesses - Sequoia Insurance Brokers and InterPrac General Insurance - for a consideration between $4.4 million to ...

AFCA urges super trustees to improve processes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... numbers show scam-related complaints drove the surge, together with motor vehicle insurance, banking, finance, and general insurance sector-related issues. Scam-related complaints rose 81% to 10,951 in FY24, averaging 913 a month compared with 504 year ...

AFCA complaints surge in FY24

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... numbers show scam-related complaints drove the surge, together with motor vehicle insurance, banking, finance, and general insurance sector-related issues. AFCA has not yet provided a breakdown of the complaints related to financial advice, super, and ...

Funds SA, Mercer Super make key appointments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... superannuation, trustee services, managed funds, investment management, financial planning, health insurance and general insurance," Bryant added. Bryant said the appointment comes while the Mercer Super board continues its extensive transformation program. ...

ASIC levy to slug advisers $48.4m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... authorisation. AFSLs authorised to provide financial product advice to retail clients on basic banking products, general insurance, and consumer credit insurance will be charged $269,000 or $483 per entity. The 1097 entities that give general advice ...

Advice reforms draft laws consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
... financial product advice," the explanatory statement shows. In instances where personal advice is provided on general insurance products, the new law proposes that informed consent requirements apply. Lastly, the bill wants written information or documentation ...