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Zurich makes further additions to Life Risk team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... advisers. The new hires follow a string of appointments to Zurich's Life & Investments business. These include regional underwriting managers Matthew Apps and Tina Beilby, Queensland-based senior underwriter Scott Power and New South Wales-based Platinum ...

Zurich appoints national head of sales

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... 20 years financial services experience across a range of roles, including sales management, staff development and underwriting plus seven years as a financial planner. He replaces Marc Fabris, who was promoted to a global role as head of New Distribution ...

APRA issues draft group insurance PPG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... identifying risks around trends in claims rates, tendering procedures, members cherry picking policies they don't need underwriting for and how to handle commercial risks associated with insurers that may win or lose a major contract. APRA has also outlined ...

TAL appoints head of retail claims

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... where for 12 years his responsibilities ran across a number of customer-facing and strategic roles in both claims and underwriting. In his new role Pugh will focus on claim time, aiming to deliver improved processes and customer outcomes. TAL's chief ...

Zurich risk products added to netwealth platform

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013

Reinsurance specialist boosts Australian team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... broking property placements and Teresa Aquilina who has more than 20 years of experience in property and casualty underwriting.

TPD insurance prices up 10%

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... are beginning to review the wisdom of generous insurance contract terms - such as options to increase cover without underwriting - and the traditional very broad definition of total and permanent disability," said Rice Warner head of Wealth Management ...

Insurers now in full recovery mode

STAFF WRITERS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... had over the past two years in Australasia has helped the market find its feet and apply its growing capacity to underwriting new risks and expanding product offerings."

Get longevity risk right on DLAs, warns APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... will pay close attention to DLA providers' longevity risk calculations, in addition to investment, reinvestment and underwriting risks. "In the UK market, the industry has regularly underestimated longevity risk, and this has cost it dearly," Laughlin ...

AMP reveals new leadership team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013