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Buffett brings adviser PI products to Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) has announced it is introducing professional indemnity products in Australia, including one for financial planners. The new policies are Executive First Directors & Officers Liability ...

FSC calls for 22% company tax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... will rise 1.8%. Within the package the FSC has also renewed its calls to State governments to remove stamp duties on insurance which it said result in costs being passed on to consumers with little returned to the states. "Insurance duties are one of ...

Asteron creates LIF-ready adviser commissions

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Asteron Life has announced a new selection of adviser commission options for its life insurance products. The new options are customised commission rates, new hybrid rates or wholesale rates for fee-for-service models. The customised rate includes a ...

Pillar hires change specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... wealth of experience in managing business transformation, integration and corporate change projects across the financial, insurance and utility industries. She is a qualified consulting psychologist and draws on her expertise in organisational psychology ...

Rubik appoints head of marketing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... communications with fintech start-up, Decimal Software. Other roles have included global manager brand and content for QBE Insurance, general manager internal communications at NBN Co and head of communications for Australia and New Zealand for global ...

OmniLife adds industry fund risk products

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Omnium-operated risk research tool OmniLife has added industry fund risk insurance products, giving advisers further comparative insight into the super risk market. Although retail and industry fund risk products are operated differently, Omnium said ...

Risk sales plunge in 2015

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... to Plan for Life research. Plan for Life's consolidated report on both group and individual risk lump sum and income insurance inflows revealed that while some insurers (OnePath and MLC) reported sales growth, this was offset by MetLife, TAl, AIA and ...

Prime Super awards multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... Super has awarded a multi-asset mandate to a $110.5 billion global investment manager. Following on from Prime Super's insurance mandate with CommInsure on December 12, PineBridge Investments announced the super fund has made an allocation to its PineBridge ...

Prime Super awards insurance mandate to CommInsure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... competitive tender process. The partnership takes effect on 1 May 2016. "This is an exciting change to the group life insurance arrangements for Prime Super. Our goals in undertaking this tender process were to simplify and streamline our offering, to ...

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... whereby an employee's choice is not suitable and leads to an employee suffering loss, reduced returns or poorly tailored insurance products, then this may create disharmony in the workplace." The Financial Services Council (FSC), which mainly represents ...