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MLC Life appoints claims chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
MLC Life Insurance has appointed its new chief claims officer, who left QBE after more than 16 years with the insurer. On August 16, Andrew Beevors will take on the role of chief claims officer, reporting directly to chief executive Rodney Cook. Beevors ...

New chief operating officer at Zurich

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... management and law. She moved to the insurance industry in 2004, working for global firms such as Chubb, CNA Insurance and QBE Insurance. She replaces Pearce, who was operations chief for two years. From June 28, Pearce will become the chair of SCOR ...

KPMG names risk consulting partners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... sectors. Conner joins from Promontory Financial Group where she was a director. She was previously senior manager risk culture at QBE Insurance and director at Grant Thornton in risk management. She was also a supervisor at APRA where she provided frontline ...

Rest appoints head of investment strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... Morningstar last year. Thomas most recently worked at BlackRock Investment Management. Prior to this, he worked at insurer QBE for nearly two decades, ending as its head of strategy and asset allocation. Earlier in his career, he was a fund manager at ...

QBE appoints local chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... Westpac's managing director for insurance as its new chief executive for Australia and Pacific division. Sue Houghton will join QBE in the Sydney-based role in August. Houghton is currently Westpac's managing director for insurance across three units ...

Gender diversity has a way to go: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... financial services, companies that made the index include Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Challenger, National Australia Bank and QBE Insurance. Other companies include Nine Entertainment, Scentre Group, Incitec Pivot, NIB and this year's only new inclusion ...

Does financial services have a problem with women?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... harassment and discrimination. Her experience led her to leave the financial services industry all together. Also in 2020, QBE Insurance Group chief executive Pat Regan departed after three years in the role just 10 days after a complaint about his behaviour ...

QBE takes final hit in FCA test case

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
QBE has lost its final effort to overturn the UK Supreme Court decision against it in relation to policy wording issues, losing its appeal bid in the High Court. The test case was launched by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to resolve legal ...

Janus Henderson bolsters institutional team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... in asset management, insurance and superannuation, having also held roles with a range of industry participants including QBE Insurance, Pengana, QIC and AMP Capital.

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
Of the almost 3500 stories penned this year, these are the stories the Financial Standard team feels defined 2020. The Financial Standard editorial team has written 3484 stories so far in 2020. It wasn't always easy either. Like most of you, we ...