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Zurich UK launches selfie app for underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
Zurich has launched facial recognition technology in an effort to promote life insurance adoption across the UK. FaceQuote is able to quote a monthly life insurance premium for prospective customers based on age estimates calculated after a selfie is ...

Zurich sells Singapore life business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The newest player to enter Singapore's life insurance market is acquiring the business portfolio of Zurich Life Singapore. Singapore Life, which launched in June 2017 as the first new local life insurer to be licensed in Singapore since 1970, will acquire ...

Life insurance inflows stable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... mixed company-level results. Among the market leaders, BT / Westpac (7.5%) and TAL (7.2%) experienced the highest inflows; Zurich's inflows jumped by 63.7% largely due to the acquisition of Macquarie Life. Individual risk income inflows increased 2.6% ...

IOOF research boss tenders resignation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... was chief investment officer of SFG Australia, principal at Clarence Advisory, executive general manager investments at Zurich Financial Services Australia and regional chief economist at Deutsche Asset Management. In an internal memo, IOOF group general ...

ANZ sells life insurance business for $2.85 billion

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... life insurer. Completing what the bank described as a "simplification" of its wealth division, ANZ sold the business to Zurich. The sale comprises two transactions, including $1 billion of upfront reinsurance commission from Zurich. Upon completion ...

New advice firm taps young professional market

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... save more is a popular New Year's resolutions, but research shows less than 10% of people actually stick to it. Former Zurich risk strategist Jessica Brady and former Macquarie associate director and business development manager Glen Hare have teamed ...

Advisers ambivalent on LIF deadline: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... or simply aren't ready for life insurance remuneration changes that will impact their business. The sentiment reinforces Zurich's September study revealing about 65% of advisers remain unsure about how life insurance remuneration will be capped. About ...

Financial literacy the bridge for income protection gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... counselling can play a significant role in closing the income protection gap. That is a key finding from a recent study by Zurich in partnership with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. It looks at how industry ...

Financial services industry welcomes 'Yes' result

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... Leaders from across the financial services industry have welcomed the 'Yes' vote in favour of legalising same-sex marriage. Zurich, Vanguard, Westpac, Australian Ethical and CBA have all expressed delight at the result and affirmed their commitment to ...

Listed mortgage broker joins forces with TAL

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... Strategic Insight also announced that TAL Life won its 2017 Direct Life Insurance Excellence Award. Among the highlights, Zurich Australia received the Funeral Cover Level Premiums Award for American Express Funeral Advantage; OnePath Life won the Accident ...