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ClearView adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... chief operating officer of Reinsurance Group of America's Australian business. She has also previously held roles with MLC Life Insurance. Gooderick has been consulting to ClearView since June of this year. The appointments come as ClearView confirmed ...

NAB adds to wealth client remediation

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... provisions for customer remediation to $266 million after tax. Of this, $172 million is related to matters from the IOOF-acquired MLC Wealth. The wealth remediation is a result of non-compliant advice given to customers, adviser service fees charged ...

Centrepoint hires recruitment lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... national recruitment strategy. Charles Smith joins the ASX-listed firm as national recruitment manager. He was most recently at MLC Wealth where he spent over four years as business growth manager, responsible for recruiting self-employed financial advisers ...

OnePath takes over group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... case." It's been widely reported recently that Shaun Smith, a former AFL player, won a $1.4 million payout from his insurer MLC as a result of suffering a serious concussion during his career. In May, the AFLPA extended its 20-year-long partnership ...

APRA, ASIC release life insurance stats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... MoneySmart site, the industry average for claims accepted on life insurance through a financial adviser is 80.8%. AMP, CommInsure, MLC and Zurich were all above that average (CommInsure had the highest claims acceptance rate at 89%). Asteron, OnePath ...

Self-licensing on the horizon

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... several movements. As an example, HFM & Partners and Queensland-based Designing Financial Solutions (DFS) have recently left MLC-owned GWM Adviser Services not long after the IOOF takeover. "We are seeing a second wave of movements as advice firms either ...

Retail super fund scores best customer service nod

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... offering and industry fund Rest. AustralianSuper dropped to number five in the Australia CX Index. Superannuation offerings from MLC and AMP took the sixth and seventh spots respectively. Forrester Research, a US market research firm, surveyed more than ...

Level premiums to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... insurance, level premiums will continue to exist. Speaking on a panel at the Association of Financial Advisers Conference, MLC chief of life insurance Sean McCormack said he doesn't believe APRA's changes will represent the "death knell" of level premiums ...

MLC Wealth general manager jumps to Ashurst

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The former general manager of regulatory change and remediation at MLC Wealth has moved to law firm Ashurst. Chris Baker spent more than 12 years with National Australia Bank and MLC in various leadership roles and was general manager, regulatory change ...

MLC Life hires wealth and partnerships lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
MLC Life announced more changes to its group insurance team, hiring a former general manager of distribution from Integrity Life. Suzie Brown is the new general manager of MLC wealth and corporate partnerships. Brown will manage the partnership with ...