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Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... the longest at 8.7 months. The inaugural life insurance claims and dispute statistics used 22,000 data points form 20 insurers. Generally, individual advised business showed higher admittance rates than individual non-advised for the same cover type ...

Superannuation, insurance expert joins EY

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... McKechnie previously advised superannuation funds in the retail and industry space, and has worked with several key life insurers and reinsurers assisting them with the complex challenges posed by the ever-changing regulatory environment, Segaert added. ...

Regulators unite for life insurance transparency

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... successful first time round. It has also seen the development of an online comparison tool tracking the performance of life insurers. APRA has released its inaugural life insurance claims and disputes statistics publication, which uses more than 22,000 ...

IFM Investors to open new Europe office

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... funds under management and has a base of 350 institutional investors from 17 countries, including pension funds, mutual insurers, charities and endowments and a small amount of sovereign wealth funds.

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... APLs of life insurance products to be banned and for financial advisers to access 10 or so APRA-regulated retail life insurers. "APLs are not recognised by law. They are an artificial construct developed by vertically-integrated institutions to influence ...

APRA consults to combat cyber attacks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... is now consulting the industry on the matter. APRA executive board member Geoff Summerhayes said: "Australia's banks, insurers and superannuation funds are major targets of cyber-crime, and the risk is accelerating as attackers gain in skill and technological ...

Regulators receive pre-Budget funding boost

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... regulator extend the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) to all APRA-regulated entitles, including super funds and insurers; and greater supervision intensity across APRA-regulated entities, with a strong focus on underperforming super funds. ...

Robert slates industry over inactive accounts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... life insurance premiums. But Robert questioned why the industry failed to deal with the issue, pointing out many life insurers would have knowingly charged significant premiums to inactive accounts. "We got to the point where [there were] 28 million ...

UK to introduce new pension scheme

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... Royal Mail. It was finally approved yesterday after a consultation with the 70 stakeholders, including pensions industry, insurers and other bodies. "Many of the more than 70 contributors to the consultation on CDCs urged the government to make the new ...

FSC to enact binding standard on genetic testing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... in comprehensible English and ASIC approval was needed. Instead, the FSC will enact a binding standard limiting life insurers use of genetic testing from July. The new standard will apply to all 22 life insurer members of the FSC, covering every individually ...