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Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... climate change and environmental risk perceptions has decreased," Wainwright said. "As one of Australia's largest life insurers, the emergence of declining health and wellbeing as a new key concern in the survey is both alarming and unsurprising ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 executives from the asset management arms of life insurers, as well as health and general insurance companies, across Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Collectively, these insurance ...

Former Pendal insto lead quits Citi

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... for the nation's largest bank to manage key relationships with superannuation funds, sponsors, asset managers and insurers. Nicki Ashton is set to join Commonwealth Bank as a global relationship manager after exiting Citi, where she served as head ...

Why risk advice is on the verge of collapse: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... Financial Standard, Acenda partner education manager Marshall Ross agreed with Anderson's statements, arguing that life insurers need more advisers for product distribution. "Advisers have a large impact on all life insurers in Australia, because the ...

Japanese insurer acquires stake in Barings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... deliver solutions for clients," he said. Barings is the asset management subsidiary of MassMutual, one of the largest life insurers in the US. Barings has US$470 billion in assets under management.

TAL to provide mental healthcare program via partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... years, with over 11,000 Australians making claims in relation in 2024-25 alone. It comes as the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) is developing an industry action plan for mental health claims to ensure claimants are assessed appropriately.

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... exist, and it is becoming a busy space with fund managers such as Perennial offering a retirement "income model" and life insurers in the market with an alternative in investment bonds. But while many Australians are engaging with these products, many ...

APRA tackles 'weak demand' for longevity products in second consultation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... conservative capital requirements and it is insufficiently risk sensitive and may exacerbate procyclicality by requiring life insurers to liquidate assets during a market downturn. To address these, APRA proposed redesigning the illiquidity premium ...

APRA updates governance framework

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... update on its consultation to modernise the prudential framework on governance for superannuation trustees, banks and insurers. In March, APRA proposed eight measures to update its cross-industry prudential standards and guidance on governance for the ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... that can't communicate with each other and legacy technology. Superannuation is no different. For example, Gee points to insurers, custodians and call centres using their own technology - none of which are integrated or communicate with each other in ...