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Westpac profit climbs, executive leaves

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... Finance, Westpac Pacific, General Insurance and Lenders Mortgage Insurance. The remaining businesses to be sold include Westpac Life Insurance, Auto Finance and its superannuation, platforms and investments divisions (including BT). "We are strengthening ...

Risk inflows stagnant, satisfaction varies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... the largest outflow at 6.2%. Group risk premium inflows decreased 0.6% over the year as a result of the Protecting Your Super and Putting Members' Interests First legislation. Despite this, AIA Australia recorded 27.3% growth followed by QInsure at 3.8%. ...

New heatmap shames trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... MySuper underperformers with red ratings over a six-year investment period are: BT Funds Management's Asgard Employee, BT Super and Westpac Group Plan (lifecycle) Colonial First State Investments' FirstChoice Superannuation Trust lifecycle (lifecycle) ...

New internal audit guide for finance sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
A new best-practice guide for the boards and internal auditors of superannuation funds, banks and financial service providers has been released. The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) has released The Better Practice Guide, which was developed with ...

ING announces head of wealth, chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... of chief of staff to former Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer. She also served as BT's head of brand, head of BT Super for Life, and Westpac's general manager, service revolution and transformation. Commenting on the appointment, Evans said ...

APRA, ASIC release life insurance stats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... 90.8%, with Westpac the lowest at 78.8% and TAL the highest at 94.5%. The average claim time in months on insurance through super was a bit lower than for retail insurance at five months. AIA had the longest wait time at 6.6 months and TAL the lowest ...

BT cuts Wealth Connect

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... instead transition to its customer relations team. The strategy shift would see the role of Wealth Connect national manager of super, platforms and investments be "no longer required", with managerial positions across direct wealth, super retention ...

Group risk inflows fall 15%

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... premium inflows fell 15% over the 12 months to June, with fresh legislation to blame. This includes the 'Protecting Your Super' legislation, which came into effect on 1 July 2019 (to protect super savings from unnecessary erosion by fees and insurance ...

Super fund overhauls performance on red rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... and receiving a red rating from the regulator, an $11 billion superannuation fund is turning its performance around. Mine Super initiated several strategic investment changes to its MySuper products, which are now delivering better performance and member ...

AMP, BT and CBA to face class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... Hillross or Charter Financial Planning advisers is being called on to join the class action along with anyone who held BT Super for Life, BT Super for Life Westpac Group, BT SuperWrap, BT SuperWrap Essentials, BT Panorama Super or BT Superannuation Invest ...