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TAL completes acquisition of Westpac Life

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
... Westpac's life insurance arm, almost one year after it was announced. From today all of Westpac's life insurance business and existing policies will transfer over to TAL Group. A total of 345 Westpac Life employees will also migrate over to the insurer. ...

ANZ to purchase Suncorp Bank for $4.9bn

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
... Queensland for Suncorp Bank for at least three years post completion, ANZ said. The acquisition does not include the insurance business, which Suncorp Group chief executive Steve Johnston said will be focused on meeting the needs of customers and communities ...

AMP completes Resolution Life divestment

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
... the final stages of executing." As previously reported by Financial Standard, AMP began its exit of the life insurance business last year flagging that it would divest the company's $524 million stake in Resolution Life. As part of this divestment ...

Cbus executive named ESSSuper chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
... she said. In joining, she replaces Puli who left at the beginning of the year to join MLC Life's group insurance business. Acting in the role since has been David Daley, ESSSuper's general manager, member engagement. "David has done a fabulous ...

Zurich makes leadership appointment

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2022
... chief claims officer, effective immediately. Leung has served as chief operations officer of Zurich's general insurance business since January 2021. She will also continue in this role until mid-March, Zurich said. In her new role, Leung will be focused ...

MLC Life names head of fund partnerships

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
MLC Life Insurance has appointed a head of fund partnerships for the group insurance business, most recently on the leadership team of an industry super fund. Chris Porter has taken on the role, reporting directly to general manager, fund partnerships ...

Iress wins new mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
... Zealand. The mandate will see Iress technology used to support all areas of Findex's financial advice and risk insurance business including advice operations, compliance processes, and investment portfolio strategy development. "We're delighted to partner ...

ASFA names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
... the Insurance Council of New Zealand for four years is the former chief executive of Suncorp's Australian insurance business. Dransfield also spent time in leadership roles at IAG, Lend Lease, Vero Insurance, and AMP. ASFA director Chris Davies commented ...

BTFG names chief customer service officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
BT Financial Group appointed a long-serving Westpac executive as its chief customer service officer. Georgina Croft spent 12 years at the Westpac Group, serving in several executive roles that included chief operating officer for the insurance businesses ...

Zurich expands group insurance leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... has also previously held roles with Westpac, Bupa Australia, MBF and Commonwealth Bank. Reporting to group insurance business lead Darren Wickham, Racheha brings over 20 years' experience in digital roles. Commenting on the appointment, Wickham said ...