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Life reforms see AIA boost team

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Helping licensees and advisers navigate the latest life insurance reforms has led to AIA Australia making several additions to its strategic partnerships team. Joining AIA Australia as head of strategic partnerships is Kristen Lennis-Harvey who will ...

Industry fund encourages members to claim insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... industry superannuation fund has started an online campaign to help explain to its members how to claim on their group insurance policies. Energy Super has posted a short YouTube video in which an eight year old named Pete talks about how his father ...

Insurance literacy on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
More Australians are considering the features and benefits of life insurance policies as well as cost, according to research by TAL and policy comparison service Lifebroker. Lifebroker's data shows that while 44% of users rely on basic price comparisons ...

Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... funds could work together to verify the identity of an individual and potentially consolidate multiple accounts, pay insurance claims or update simple details. The Working Group has committed to investigating ways that super funds can introduce greater ...

VFMC appoints former AustralianSuper chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... experience in funds management, property and infrastructure. Rubin is currently a director of Mirvac, NAB Wealth life insurance, administration and investment subsidiary boards, Touchcorp and Transurban Queensland. Chairman of VFMC, James MacKenzie ...

Xero inking partnership for real-time PI insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... software company Xero is in talks with an insurer to provide data feeds to facilitate real-time professional indemnity insurance cover. Speaking to Financial Standard, Xero managing director Chris Ridd said that the real-time cover concept follows on ...

Difficult year for insurance income: CBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev said it had been a difficult year for life insurance income and more work needs to be done to make its product attractive. Yesterday the bank announced a $9.1 billion cash profit for the past financial year ...

Westpac insurance adviser gets permanent ban

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
A Westpac financial planner has been permanently banned for submitting false insurance policy proposals to the bank to obtain benefits for himself. Victoria-based adviser Martin Hodgetts submitted nine false insurance policies between May and September ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... economic decisions, falls off with age. It has also discovered that loss adverse people are the most likely to buy pet insurance. Del Rey sees a range of applications for the tool beyond the client-adviser relationship. The insights can be applied to ...

CBA profit tops $9 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... increase to $286 million. Announcing the banks 2015 results today, Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev said insurance income decreased 3% during the year due to an unusually large number of weather event claims in New South Wales and Queensland. ...