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FAAA announces 2024 awards finalists

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... Greene Financial won $2000 grants to attend FAAA Congress. The ReCALIbrate program helps foster diversity across the life insurance industry to ensure it is representative of the community it serves and that it provides opportunities for more women to ...

AFCA consults on revised superannuation death benefits

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... misunderstandings when processing such complaints. This follows on from another consultation on superannuation life insurance disputes opened earlier last month. AFCA encourages stakeholders to review the revised approach document on super death benefits ...

ISG ordered to wind up managed investment schemes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
... financial reporting lodgement obligations for itself and the schemes, and did not have required professional indemnity insurance coverage in place between 14 July 2020 and 21 June 2021. The licence suspension was revoked on 6 February 2023, when ISG ...

Australian Food Super picks TAL for group insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The $3 billion industry superannuation fund has transitioned its group insurance arrangements to TAL. It marks the end of a five-year mandate with AIA, which took over as the fund's group life insurer in September 2019 from MetLife. Effective September ...

Zurich launches new TPD option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... simplification of definitions and premium labels. Since its acquisition of OnePath Life from ANZ in 2019, Zurich provides life insurance to more than 1.5 million Australian customers under both the Zurich and OnePath Life brands.

GESB adopts Protecting Your Super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... was introduced in 2019 to help avoid unnecessary erosion of account balances. As of September 25, GESB can now cancel insurance in accounts that have not received a contribution for 16 months or more, unless notified otherwise, and transfer inactive ...

Vision Super refreshes premium rates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
Vision Super is reducing premiums for a range of insurance products for its Super Saver, Personal, and Australian Services Union members. Vision Super and insurance partner MLC will decrease premiums for death, total and permanent incapacity (TPD) ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... implementation experience or operational risk consolidations of business operations within funds... a super fund will have insurance, wealth products, financial advice, investment operations, active investment management; it is a complex beast but, in ...

Former Mercer Super chair named Actuary of the Year

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... Swinhoe the Actuary of the Year for 2024. Swinhoe has an extensive background in financial services, having worked across insurance, institutional banking, and superannuation. She is currently a non-executive director of Swiss Re (Life & Health and Property ...

GAM Investments loses local lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... investor solutions for Barclays Capital for five years, landing from Macquarie Bank following stints at Skandia, Zurich Insurance and AMP. Five months ago, GAM recruited Alexandra Williamson as distribution manager for institutions and wealth advisory. ...