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NEOS shakes up leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... actuary, claims and implementation departments. Kirshan Reddy joined as chief actuary in February after working at MLC Life Insurance as the head of profitability and performance reporting for over a year. He spent most of his career at South Africa's ...

Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
A former BT Life Insurance head of product and sales has taken on the role, following the resignation of Andrew Tobin last year. Rachel Grimes spent over 20 years at Westpac in several senior finance roles including director of mergers and acquisitions ...

UK drags Bravura performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... global investment bank and an Australian trustees business (Garradin); a superannuation fund (ePASS); a New Zealand life insurance firm (Sonata); a UK platform (Sonata) and a UK platform (microservices). Total revenue is down 19.4% year on year to $115.7 ...

Standard Life Aberdeen sells 196-year-old brand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... executive Stephen Bird said the Standard Life brand has an important heritage and strong recognition in the UK as a life insurance and pensions provider, which bodes well for Phoenix Group. "This is much less the case with the business we are building ...

Actuaries Institute names new president

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... left eight years later to work at Westpac as an appointed actuary. She rejoined KPMG in July 2012 managing the life insurance and financial services actuarial team of 50. Bui previously worked at Tower Australia, AXA and National Mutual. Actuaries Institute ...

Wealth group makes acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... Wales Central Coast. The subsidiary will acquire a 51% stake in the group which includes private wealth management, life insurance broking, finance broking and accounting and tax. The transaction will cost $3 million with a 40% retention payment due ...

Risk inflows stay flat

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... TAL, AIA and MetLife contributed significantly to the overall result. The data is in line with APRA's quarterly life insurance performance statistics which painted a bleak picture with net profit after tax down 95.6% to $18 million while total revenue ...

QBE appoints local chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... Sydney-based role in August. Houghton is currently Westpac's managing director for insurance across three units: life insurance lenders mortgage insurance and general insurance. Prior to this she worked as Arthur J Gallagher's chief financial officer ...

Integrity Life updates product offering

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
The life insurance provider has revealed several changes to its products with a new support package for clients and a multi-cover discount. As of today, lump sum cover includes Integrity's Care Support Package for policyholders who are unable to ...

PPS Mutual hires from BT

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
A former BT Life manager has joined the mutual life insurance firm as business development manager for New South Wales. Sophie Gacomi has over 10 years' experience in business development roles and spent the last year at BT Life. Prior to this, Gacomi ...