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Centrepoint pulls out of NEOS Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... divestment, Benbow said the new strategy is not focused on product solutions like NEOS Life - a provider of retail life insurance products, issued by NobleOak. "As such, while the company's investment was appropriate to the former strategy, after thorough ...

MetLife expands retail arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... manager for Victoria and Tasmania, and Charle Howard as a strategic account manager. MetLife entered the retail life insurance market in early 2018, appointing Lippiatt to lead the division.

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... long-term profitability. KPMG recommended a "fundamental rethink" by redesigning key product features. Overall, retail life insurance drove the substantial increase in profitability in the 2017 financial year, KPMG said, while group insurance remained ...

FSC honours life insurance industry talent

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... category awards: The Innovation in Direct Life Insurance Award for its MyLife product; and the Innovation In Retail Life Insurance Award for its mental health training program. AMP's mental health training helps employees and advisers engage with people ...

MetLife expands retail life business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
MetLife is ramping up its retail life insurance offering with two new appointments. Casey Sugden joins as senior sales manager for Victoria and Tasmania, tasked with leading adviser engagement and growing the regional sales team. Sugden was most recently ...

Vision Super names new life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... about $8.8 billion in funds under management. Separately, MLC Life recently announced base premium rates for retail life insurance policies will remain on hold until October next year. This affects MLC Insurance, MLC Insurance Super, Protectionfirst ...

MetLife pushes for the retail market with new hire

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
MetLife will launch its retail life insurance offer to advisers and brokers next year and has appointed a head of retail sales from AMP to facilitate this process. Matt Lippiatt joins MetLife from AMP, where he was national account manager. He has held ...

MLC fixes premiums for 12 months

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
MLC Life Insurance's base premium rates for retail life insurance policies will remain on hold until October next year. This affects MLC Insurance, MLC Insurance Super, Protectionfirst, Personal Protection Portfolio and Life Cover Super retail customers. ...

ASIC consults on new statement of advice

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... against liability or a compliance tool." The consultation follows a number of policy developments in the retail life insurance sector which have highlighted the need for better SOAs. As part of the life insurance advice reform package announced in November ...

BT Financial Group wins Life Company of the Year

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... peers," Fox added. Strategic Insight head of sales, marketing and product development Rael Solomon said: "The retail life insurance market continues to be driven by a high level of competition between all life companies, resulting in innovation in not ...