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Zurich cleans up at Plan For Life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
Zurich has won in three categories at Plan For Life's 2015 Direct Life Insurance awards. Aside from the overall Direct Life Insurance Excellence Award, Zurich also picked up the Term Life and Customer Service for Life Companies awards. Held in Sydney ...

IAG appoints COO from Suncorp

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
IAG has appointed a new chief operating officer. Mark Milliner joins the IAG executive team from Suncorp, where he was chief executive personal insurance. He has held numerous other roles at the $17 billion insurance group since 1994, including general ...

SelectingSuper fund award nominees announced

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
SelectingSuper has announced the nominees for the 2015 annual super fund and product awards to be held on 18th November at the RACV Club in Melbourne. The annual awards which are sponsored and supported by La Trobe Financial, acknowledge the best funds ...

FSC awards industry execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
The FSC awarded eight top executives for their contributions to the industry at the conference gala dinner, which took place last night at Movie World, on the Gold Coast. The eight winners were Perpetual senior risk manager Alan Lewitton, AMP's Janet ...

Suncorp Life super channel leads profit growth

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
Suncorp has posted the full-year results for its life division, with its superannuation channel seeing the biggest in-force growth: 23.4% on the previous 12 months to $496 million. Suncorp said this was because of "strong growth in sales in both WealthSmart ...

Findex life insurance goes commission-free

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Findex's Centric Wealth and Financial Index Wealth Accountants divisions will now only recommend commission-free life insurance policies. As per the recommendations provided by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Financial Planning Association ...

LGsuper appoints chief digital officer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
An ongoing digital transformation at LGsuper has led to the appointment of a chief digital officer. The newly-created role sees Brett Barber join the Queensland-based public sector superannuation fund. Barber will be responsible for LGsuper's IT and ...

FSC revamps board, policy team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed State Street head of Asia Pacific to its board and confirmed that chief economist James Bond has left the organisation. State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Asia Pacific, Lochiel Crafter, is ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
The biggest industry moves this week are Suncorp Life's chief executive stepping down after seven years in the position and Victorian Funds Management Corporation appointing a new chairman. Suncorp Life boss to step down - Geoff Summerhayes will step ...

Challenger appoints technical services head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
Challenger has appointed a new head of technical services to support advisers. Andrew Lowe was previously a principal consultant at Suncorp-owned Asteron Life and has also held technical positions at ANZ Wealth and ING. At Challenger, he will report ...