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Maritime Super reappoints MLC Life as group insurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
Maritime Super reappointed MLC Life Insurance as its group insurer, effective July 1. MLC Life Insurance will continue providing Maritime Super's members with cover for death, total and permanent disablement as well as income protection. Maritime ...

Moody's RMS appoints regional managing director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
Moody's Analytics has appointed Andrew Hare managing director, Asia Pacific for its RMS business. Hare joins from Aon's insurance advisory business Aon Inpoint where he was managing director and head of the Asia business. In total, he spent 17 years ...

ASIC response to Freedom Insurance saga continues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
... remediation for Freedom Insurance customers and is urging anyone else who purchased life cover through the now-defunct insurer to come forward. Freedom Insurance went out of business after ASIC's review of the sale of direct life insurance and subsequent ...

MLC Life Insurance launches wellbeing service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
... Insurance will be supported by Vivo under one brand. It's fully accessible online and offered at no additional cost, the insurer said. Retail customers across all products can access services now, while fund members will get access over the second ...

Integrity Life picks AGI as group life administrator

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
Integrity Life has named Australian Group Insurances (AGI) as its group life insurance administrator. AGI combines a custom-built digital cloud solution and powerful administration technologies with group insurance specialists to deliver a customised ...

NEOS Life appoints sales, culture leads

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
The life insurer has welcomed a new head of sales, as the incumbent moves into a newly created role overseeing culture and performance. NEOS Life has welcomed Harry Georges as head of sales, recruiting him from digital insurer, iptiQ. He brings more ...

What the QAR should focus on: MLC Life

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... compliant advice journeys, that are adviser-led, technology driven and supported by regulator and industry stakeholders," the insurer said. Downey said it must be about doing what's right for customers and advisers, which means ensuring more advice ...

APRA releases annual corporate plan

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... collections. It concluded that it will look to improve resilience and reduce the risk and impact of a disorderly exit of an insurer by ensuring effective continuity, recovery and resolution plans are in place. Measures to strengthen banking will ensure ...

Super fund climate risk assessment results released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
APRA has published the findings of a voluntary climate risk self-assessment survey conducted across the entities APRA regulates. Sixty-four medium to large institutions responded to the survey, which was designed to provide insights into how institutions ...

TAL completes acquisition of Westpac Life

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
... existing policies will transfer over to TAL Group. A total of 345 Westpac Life employees will also migrate over to the insurer. Westpac expects to report a total after tax loss on sale of about $1.37 billion, $0.27 billion of which was incurred in the ...