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Super Fund of the Year named

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... Industry Service Award. In addition to his roles at HESTA between 2004 and 2017, Fowler held roles at BT Funds Management, Suncorp Investment Management and Macquarie in a career that spanned close to 40 years. The awards recognise Australia's super ...

ASIC eyes claims handling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... badly in ASIC's review. "We found concerningly high decline rates for two insurers: Asteron, which used to be known as Suncorp, and Westpac. These two insurers declined one in three claims," she said. ASIC's report found that most of the issues with ...

Suncorp pays $1.4m remediation bill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
Suncorp Life and Superannuation has remediated more than 4000 Guardian Advice clients for poor financial advice. ASIC today confirmed Suncorp has completed the remediation program for more than 4000 GuardianFP clients, paying out a total of $1.431 million. ...

Suncorp pressured on coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
Suncorp was hit with a shareholder resolution today demanding it reduce its investment and underwriting exposures to coal, oil and gas. Market Forces lodged the resolution on behalf of 100 Suncorp shareholders. Suncorp confirmed it has received the ...

ASIC slams consumer credit failures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... findings in the report, which included the likes of Commonwealth Bank and its subsidiary Bankwest, ANZ, NAB, Westpac, Suncorp, Citigroup and others. "Lenders and insurers have had more than enough time to improve sales practices and provide better value ...

Super figures point to NSW victory

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... tonight. Just hours before the Blues and Maroons begin the annual battle for rugby league supremacy at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, latest Rainmaker analysis reveals New South Wales based super funds are edging out their Queensland opponents 3-2 across ...

TAL restructures retail arm, announces job cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... retail business that will make some jobs redundant after reviewing its recent acquisition of Asteron, Suncorp's Australian life insurance business. Realigning the retail businesses will consequently reduce headcount across both the TAL and Asteron ...

Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... are the most efficient (four weeks each), according to the ASIC and APRA analysis. As for TPD claims in group insurance, Suncorp/Asteron takes the longest to process claims at 9.7 months, followed by Westpac at 8.5 months and AIA Australia at seven months. ...

NEOS continues recruitment drive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... four sales managers. Karlton Andrews is the new senior underwriting risk specialist. He spent more than eight years at Suncorp in a similar role and prior to that held senior underwriting positions at TAL and Asteron life. He will focus on improving ...

TAL to add remediation head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... insurance business, which was housed within its Insurance Australia division prior to the sale. In its 2017/18 annual report, Suncorp noted 113,210 customer complaints were registered in 2018. The Insurance Australia division also holds Suncorp's ...