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TAL expands Risk Academy offering

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... faced with, diabetes. Launched during National Diabetes Week, the new education course will be presented by TAL chief medical officer Dr Priya Chagan. It follows TAL launching a cancer education course in 2017. The course focuses on understanding the ...

New managing director at Paragem

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... high-net-worth advice and trustee business at Perpetual Private. His responsibilities included growing advisory services for medical specialists starting out in private practice, as well as investment and trustee services for indigenous communities looking ...

Life insurer early intervention a win: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... Damien Mu has been actively urging the government to lift legislative barriers that restrict life insurers from funding medical treatments for mental health conditions. The health care system has to keep up with one of the fastest growing issues confronting ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
There is division over whether or not private life insurers should be able to fund medical treatments for rehabilitating customers - the subject of a current Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting ...

MLC Life enhances mental health offering

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... will extend its Best Doctors offering to allow customers access to a mental health service designed to provide a second medical opinion for diagnosis and treatment plans. The new service, Mental Health Navigator, will connect customers with a mental ...

Mental health to transform life insurance: ANZ Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... Australia and New Zealand chief executive Damien Mu said the legislative barriers that restrict life insurers from funding medical treatments for mental health conditions must be overhauled.

S&P reaffirms Sirtex after new offer from Chinese manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board. This offer is somewhat higher than the previous one made by US-based Varian Medical Systems, which was to acquire 100% of Sirtex at $28 per share. While there is no certainty as to whether CDH's indicative ...

S&P to remove ASX healthcare firm from index

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... asset managers, will be removed from the ASX 200 pending acquisition by a US company. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Sirtex Medical will be removed from the index subject to shareholder and court approval of the acquisition by NYSE-listed Varian Medical ...

Industry fund adds chair, first female director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... executive of Superpartners which was acquired by Link Group in 2014. He currently holds three other directorships in banking, medical research and business consulting. The industry fund has also appointed Kerry Johnson as an independent director, marking ...

What makes a tech company attractive for HNW investors?

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... Prospa among others. One tech investment idea attractive to Petre is "medtechs" that are using machine learning to improve medical sciences. For example, melanoma can now be diagnosed with greater accuracy and at a fraction of the cost, he said. When ...