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Damien Mu elected to FSC board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... executive in July this year. Prior to his time at AIA Mu was operations manager for AustralianSuper and national manager of insurance and claims services at Superpartners. He has also worked in the Retail Master Trust sector at Colonial and Norwich Union. ...

JP Morgan AM rejigs Asia Pacific management team

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... institutional client group. The global investment solutions division is a new business which includes multi-asset, retirement, insurance, pension advice and ETF solutions. Laskowitz retain responsibility for the Asia Pacific region and will split his ...

US insurance agency fined US$200,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... by Australian regulators, in the US the aptly named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just ordered an insurance agency to pay US$200,000 for orchestrating illegal referrals. The CFPB is a federal consumer bureau that consolidates most federal ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... the trigger as BOE governor Mark Carney explained to his audience at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries General Insurance Conference in Wales: "With many of the conditions for the economy to normalise now met, the point at which interest rates also ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... knowledge to develop the new Zurich offering in Australia and to come up with a new operating model to become leaders in the insurance space." For the full story, download the September 8 issue of the Financial Standard iPad app here.

Insurers worried about striking balance between claims and price

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... greatest challenge that the sector is facing at the moment, an AIA Australia survey has found. Most superannuation fund and insurance companies' execs and employees who took part in the survey that was conducted at the recent AIA Australia Group Insurance ...

HESTA appoints general manager of member advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... financial planners across Australia who provide personal financial advice to HESTA's members on investment choices, insurance options, additional contributions to the fund and transferring to the HESTA Income Stream. Mulvihill has a Certified Financial ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... organisation SuperFriend has today released detailed quantitative research on mental illness-related claims through group insurance, a project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research, which was conducted ...

TAL's Minto to retire, new CEO named

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... TAL for six years and during that time he has overseen the retail life and investments adviser business, TAL's Group insurance and wholesale business and also TAL's customer facing advice businesses of Affinia and Lifebroker. "I am excited to be given ...

AustralianSuper to charge for over-the-phone advice

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... income account. However it added that advice on topics such as choosing an investment option, adding to your account, and insurance cover would still be provided "at no extra cost". In the same letter to members, AustralianSuper also announced changes ...