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MetLife Australia chief to lead industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... deliver sustainable long-term investment returns to these members and clients," he said. Stewart was appointed to lead MetLife Australia in 2014. Prior to this she held senior leadership roles with BT Financial Group and Merrill Lynch Investment Management. ...

Life insurance inflows stable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... Insight show. The group insurance segment however, recorded minimal growth, up 1.8% year-on-year to $6.3 billion, with MetLife (14.1%), TAL (10.6%) and AIA (7.1%) reporting stronger inflows as a result of winning significant superannuation fund insurance ...

AustralianSuper launches insurance-free product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... in life we need to adjust our assumptions of what people need at various stages in their life," she said. Group insurer MetLife Australia recently flagged it is working with its superannuation fund partners to determine if they should follow in AustralianSuper's ...

Group insurance awareness encouraging: MetLife

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
A new MetLife survey reveals almost 75% of working Australians are aware they have insurance within their superannuation and have actually reviewed it. The life insurer surveyed more than 1500 employees aged between 18 and 64-years-old, aiming to understand ...

The rise and impact of insurtech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... collaboration is already occurring with the likes of partnerships between AXA and Alibaba, and in-house incubator models such as MetLife's LumenLab. "Increasingly, partnerships are being viewed as a welcome development in the ongoing effort to address ...

Insurers require urgent start-up collaborations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... another program Flamingo took part in, which aimed to remove procurement barriers, involved partnering with life insurer MetLife in Singapore and building good business cases with experts in the field. Charnley said not only was the collaboration valuable ...

MetLife restructures US and UK operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Global life insurer MetLife will cease to write individual insurance policies in the United States, having established a new firm to house its domestic retail life and annuity insurance divisions. MetLife received final regulatory approval from the ...

Industry fund reduces insurance premiums

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... only are we guaranteeing the same level of cover and conditions; we're also lowering premiums by 6% through to 2020." MetLife, who currently operates as Hostplus' group insurer, recently launched a national campaign to ensure every Australian is aware ...

MetLife raises bar on group insurance awareness

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Group life insurer MetLife launched a national campaign to ensure every working Australian is aware of built-in life insurance available through superannuation. Group insurance provides a "really good value base form of protection", but far too many ...

Coles sheds life insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... launching a directly distributed offer. As of 1 January 2017, Coles Life Insurance policy holders became customers of MetLife - the insurer whose MetLife Essentials product was white-labelled by Coles. Coles' exit from direct selling of life insurance ...