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Life insurance sector strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... products to customers in Australia and New Zealand. ANZ sold its life insurance business for $2.85 billion in December 2017 to Zurich. The sale comprises two transactions, including $1 billion of upfront reinsurance commission from Zurich. Challenger ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... products to customers in Australia and New Zealand. ANZ sold its life insurance business for $2.85 billion in December 2017 to Zurich. The sale comprises two transactions, including $1 billion of upfront reinsurance commission from Zurich. Global life ...

Zurich names executive lineup for new business

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
Zurich has named the executive team that will run its combined Australian life and investments business when its OnePath acquisition completes in early 2019. Long-time Zurich executive Tim Bailey will be the combined business' chief executive officer. ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... Western Australia at AMP. Finally, Hadley Fredericks joined as a senior retail underwriter. He was a senior underwriter at Zurich Life and Macquarie Life and a field underwriter with AMP/AXA. MetLife Australia read of retail sales Matt Lippiatt said ...

Allianz Retire+ announces leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... recently vice president and account manager on the PIMCO Global Wealth Management team and has previously held roles with Zurich Investment Services and Equity Trustees. Former Macquarie Group head of commercial management, wealth products Richard Rasker ...

Industry leaders in sales and marketing recognised at MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... 'Marketer of the Year'. BT Panorama clinched the highly-contested category 'Advertising Campaign of the Year' while Zurich - Life Risk & Investments, which last year won the 'Integrated Campaign of the Year' was back again onstage ...

Global $221bn manager hires BlackRock exec for new Australian office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
A global investment manager headquarted in Zurich has appointed the head of wealth for BlackRock's local iShares business to lead an expansion into the Australian market. Alex Zaika will become managing director for Australia at GAM Investments ...

Zurich seeks new investment chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
Zurich Australia is on the hunt for a new chief investment officer following an international promotion. Zurich has confirmed that current chief investment officer Sammy Ebstein is relocating to take on the same role for Zurich's business in Austria. ...

ANZ sells NZ life insurance business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... be more agile and responsible to a larger customer base," she said. ANZ sold its Australian OnePath Life operations to Zurich late last year, making the latter Australia's largest retail life insurer. "From the outset, we've been focused on partnering ...

Zurich AREITs fund receives Morningstar stamp of approval

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Zurich's AREITs fund has continued to impress ratings agencies, after recognition by Lonsec and Zenith was cemented by an upgrade from Morningstar. Zurich's Australian Property Securities Fund was upgraded by Morningstar to a Gold Morningstar ...