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ART makes sweeping changes to corporate super plans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... Zurich Australia; however, AIA Australia is taking over as insurer of the Mondelez Australia Superannuation Plan from MetLife Insurance Limited.

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... market share of 88%. TAL is the largest death and TPD insurer with a 45% market share. AIA is second with 23%, followed by MetLife with 19%. There are a total of eight insurers serving the superannuation industry, including ART Life, Hannover Re, MLC ...

Future Group confirms more mergers ahead, undertakes review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... product to product within the Smart Future Trust. The trust currently has mandates with several insurers, including AIA, MetLife and Zurich. Future Group is consolidating its insurance offerings from 10 to four and closing several of its legacy investment ...

Industry veteran joins Aus Ethical

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... seasoned financial services executive director to the board as an independent director. Currently sitting on the boards of MetLife Insurance Australia and IMB Bank, Brian Bissaker brings over three decades in financial services and consulting with previous ...

DII drives life insurance disputes: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... disputes at 996, finalising 91.1% of them in 0-45 days. AIA took 1.3 months on average to resolve these disputes, as did MetLife and ART Life. TAL resolved a total of 691 group insurance disputes and took 1.3 months on average to do so, with 93.5% finalised ...

Stockspot officially launches low-cost super offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... prioritises their savings over corporate sponsorships and hidden fees." Equity Trustees has been appointed as the trustee, MetLife has been named the insurer, DASH Promoter Services is serving as promoter and investment administrator, and DDH Graham ...

Financial services chips away at gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... 19.6%. On a median basis, median total remuneration worsened from 31.6% to 38.1% year on year. Among the life insurers, MetLife has an average remuneration pay gap of 22.3%. Across the superannuation funds, AustralianSuper and Aware Super each reported ...

MLC Life names chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... delivery and then as general manager, compliance, assurance and line one risk. Also in insurance, she worked in operations at MetLife and within ING's insurance division for seven years. Ammon also has more than 13 years' experience at Commonwealth Bank ...

MetLife snaps up three investment teams from Mesirow

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
MetLife Investment Management will acquire three investment teams and assets managed by Mesirow, shortly after it announced its acquisition of PineBridge Investments. MetLife Investment Management will take on Mesirow's high yield and bank loan strategic ...

MetLife to acquire PineBridge Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
MetLife Investment Management, the US$603 billion asset management arm of insurance giant MetLife, is set to acquire PineBridge Investments from Pacific Century Group in a deal valued up to US$1.2 billion. The deal comprises US$800 million in cash at ...