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TAL appoints GM Health Services

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... a blend of medical and commercial experience from Australian, UK and South African markets. Phillips was head of life product and strategy at CommInsure from January to March 2016, and prior to this she spent more than seven years at Macquarie where ...

CommInsure appoints life product and strategy head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
CommInsure has appointed former senior executive, Frank Crapis, as head of life product and strategy. Crapis will replace Sally Phillips who was appointed to the role just four months earlier. CommInsure confirmed that the changes have been in motion ...

Annuity sales growth drive up Challenger 1H16 profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... one of the great economic and social challenges of our time." These factors resulted in a 12% growth in Challenger Life product sales (annuities and other life products) to $2.1 billion, corresponding to a 12% growth in assets under management to $13 ...

Prime Super awards insurance mandate to CommInsure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... These new insurance arrangements deliver on the core values of the fund," Baird added. CommInsure general manager life product and distribution Craig Harrison said: "We look forward to working with Prime Super to deliver long term value to their members. ...

CommInsure appoints life head from Macquarie

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
CommInsure has appointed a new head of life product and strategy. Sally Phillips will leave Macquarie Life, where she is divisional director and head of underwriting, claims and insurance proposition, to take on the role. Prior to Macquarie, she was ...

TAL to invest $150 million in adviser support

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
As part of the insurer's "commitment to advisers," TAL will invest $150 million in adviser support services. Specifically, these include: adviser education programs; online pre-assessment requests for review by TAL underwriters; client insurance data ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Mums and dads have increasingly chosen to invest their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
MetLife Insurance will partner Steadfast, the largest network of general insurance brokers in Australasia, to extend MetLife's group life cover to Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded ...

BT Financial Group posts 21% profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... in the period and funds under advice (FUA) were up 12%. The number of retail customers in its flagship Super for Life product were also up 24% on the same time last year with FUM increasing 45% Net flows into Advance Asset Management are also up 20% ...

Banks' super products set to be next industry battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Doyle told Financial Standard. Westpac's full year results showed that the number of customers for the BT Super for Life product rose 26%, with sales at almost 1,600 products per week. BT launched the Super for Life product five years ago and was granted ...