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Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... Madeleine Barrow has left Resolution Life Australasia for HESTA, following Resolution Life's merger with MLC Life Insurance to form Acenda. Barrow most recently worked as a portfolio manager overseeing parts of the insurer's $30 billion mandate ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

ASIC suspends Newcastle advice firm's AFSL over missing key person

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... years without a key person. FFA was established in 2003 and provides financial services around superannuation, life insurance, retirement planning, estate planning and wealth creation. The ownership of FFA's AFSL changed in 2023 following the sale of ...

Principal rejoins Mercer team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... recruited a former employee as a principal and senior actuarial consultant. In her new role, Christine Lu will focus on life insurance consulting as well as on defined benefit and defined contribution superannuation. Lu has 14 years of experience in ...

PPS Mutual appoints head of distribution

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... financial officer and director between 2009 and 2013. He also co-founded specialist risk insurance business Australian Life Insurance Group. Prior to that, Pillemer worked at Westpac in senior roles. Pillemer said: "Having been part of PPS Mutual from ...

Why risk advice is on the verge of collapse: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... range of factors that have been a disincentive for advisers to break into the risk space," Anderson said. "The Life Insurance Framework (LIF) reform and the Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM) changes that came as a result of that, [as well as] ...

Japanese insurer acquires stake in Barings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... asset manager with a strong track record and deep expertise-and with MassMutual, a leading provider of high-quality life insurance solutions, carries significant meaning for our group," MS&AD and MSI chief executive Shinichiro Funabiki said. "We are ...

Agentic AI adoption 'crucial' for future success: Capgemini

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... AI at scale, including across capital markets, P&C insurance, and retail banking segments. Wealth management and life insurance companies have the lowest rate of adoption, with 17% and 13%, respectively, refusing to leverage agentic AI in their businesses. ...

MBS Insurance partners with Orbital Life

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... and make ourselves an attractive strategic partner to high quality businesses like Orbital Life." "The need for life insurance advice is increasing but the number of risk specialists is shrinking so we're exploring every opportunity to improve access ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... core." Additionally, the cause of death is also a "critical factor" in determining eligibility for a payout. "Most life insurance policies cover natural causes, accidents and illnesses. However, exclusions may apply in cases such as suicide, typically ...