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ClearView streamlines underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
ClearView Wealth has adopted Munich Re's digital platform to streamline the underwriting process and manage compliance obligations. ALLFINANZ Cloud, which was launched by Munich Re in 2019, will provide the cloud-based underwriting rules engine to speed ...

Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... insurmountable losses. Two days later, it said it will liquidate Structured Alpha 1000 and Structured Alpha 1000 Plus. Munich-based Allianz commented: "As we set out at the time, the Structured Alpha portfolio sustained losses during the severe market ...

Global group adds to local leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... international group to lead the introduction of its investment capabilities to the Australian and New Zealand markets. Munich Re has confirmed to Financial Standard it is bringing its savings and investments business to Australia, to be led by Alex Francois ...

IOOF establishes super trustee office

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... non-executive roles, in both the listed and non-listed spaces," Griffiths said. Former Actuaries Institute president and Munich Re chief risk officer Lindsay Smartt has also joined the boards of IOOF and IOOF Investment Management as a new independent ...

Investment giant appoints global insto lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... Capital Group. Based in New Jersey, Lochhead will lead the global team, including representatives in Sydney, Chicago, London, Munich, Singapore and Shanghai, where PGIM plans to expand to later this year. PGIM chief executive David Hunt said Lochhead's ...

New insto sales lead at Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... this, he worked at AMP Capital in its institutional business. He has also previously held roles with Legal & General and Munich Re. Robeco had $263 billion in assets under management, 71% of which was institutional, as at December end. In May 2018, Robeco's ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... financial business," he said. "We are seeing a shift from scale of capital being critically important to scale of data." Munich Re chief executive of digital partners Andrew Rear said: "The big difference now is the sheer volume of the data available ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... Life, following the appointment of Mark McCrea as head of operations and Jacqueline Little as head of group product. Former Munich Re Group managing director for Australasia Heinrich Elder was also appointed to the insurer's board as an independent ...

Macquarie chiefs embroiled in German investigation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... share-trading scheme. In a statement released to the ASX on Friday morning, Macquarie Group confirmed German authorities and the Munich District Court were investigating a 2011 transaction involving the $497 billion financial services giant. The German ...

Integrity Life expands senior team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... appointed Heinrich Eder to its board as an independent non-executive director. Eder joins Integrity after a 36-year career at Munich Re Group, where he spent the last decade as managing director of Australasia. He has held various directorships and adviser ...