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MLC appoints new GM for retail business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... operations. In his new role Garino is responsible for driving service and operations across the new business and underwriting, in-force administration and insurance capability teams at MLC Insurance. Garino has more than 20 years experience in financial ...

Advisers force life premiums down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... 10% across all insurers and a 16% fall in the most expensive premium charged. Clive Levinthal, head of product and underwriting for ClearView praised a highly competitive advisory market for improving prices for consumers. "The falls can be partly attributed ...

Strong premium growth countered by claims costs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... KPMG. KPMG's General Insurance Survey 2012 found that gross written premiums increased 8.3% to $28,602 million, while underwriting surplus fell from $1,229 million to a deficit of $438 million. The survey also showed that the country's insurers achieved ...

Mac Life expands claims and underwriting team

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
Macquarie Life has made two new hires in its underwriting and claims teams. Tony Baker will take on the role of financial risk manager and will provide specialist expertise and support to advisers on financial underwriting and claims cases. In addition ...

AMP launches group insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... together the features from the stand-alone AMP and AXA group products, such as a minimum plan size of 10 and relaxing underwriting requirement for larger plans. Bergin explained that offering a low minimum plan size means AMP Group Insurance can fulfill ...

APRA tweaks insurance in super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... of risk, particularly in the context of super funds growing larger. The impact on funds themselves would be better underwriting as situations would be avoided such as raised premiums to cover the risks associated with poor quality data, and situations ...

ACSI lends weight to ASX plan for rights issues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... choose not to take up the rights. The Council also said the ASX proposal would, "lead to a material reduction in underwriting and management fees borne by investors, due to reduced exposure to market risk." ACSI represents more than 40 industry super ...

Zurich says no to online sales

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... communications and services to brokers. Included within these system improvements is Z.streamXpress, a web-based electronic underwriting system that Zurich launched in 2010 for brokers to transact general insurance products with greater speed and more ...

Churning needs to be tackled with underwriters

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
The issue of 'churning' in the life insurance industry need to be tackled at the underwriting phase, according to boutique licensee Synchron. "Every application for every form of life insurance captures information about existing Insurances," said Synchron ...

NSF Super partners with MetLife

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... committed to partnering with NSF Super and bringing value to their business through market leading technology, efficient underwriting and claims handling - but most importantly, treating NSF Super members as if they were our own," said Marc Lieberman ...