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MLC Life names chief underwriter, expands medical service

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
... business process outsourcing service to the UK life and pensions industry. She has also worked for AXA Life Insurance and Swiss Re. Heyhoe said Kennedy's intimate knowledge of UnderwriteMe and innovation in the area of predictive analytics will be invaluable ...

Freedom Insurance flags acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... 2016 and the following month terminated its product development and distribution contract with NobleOak. In February, Swiss Re became the insurer of its distributed products. Cohen flagged the company has a medium-term goal of becoming the second largest ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... world's second-largest reinsurer will be switched to track ethical indices by 2018. Since the beginning of the year, Swiss Re has been consistently integrating environmental, social and governance criteria into its investment decisions through the use ...

Executive hires at SCOR Global Life

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... AMP for more than five years. She's also held numerous senior underwriting positions at AXA Australia and New Zealand, Swiss Re and National Mutual. Head of underwriting and claims Paula Bourke said Pitcher will bring invaluable experience that will ...

Insurance counteracting ageing population risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... global trend, but presents an emerging opportunity for the insurance industry to fill the gap, new research from reinsurer Swiss Re shows. The 'ageing wallet' study of the US, UK, Japan, China and Australia's pension systems shows governments bear the ...

Former QBE chief joins NSW insurance fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... director at Elders Insurance and managing director for Elders Financial Services Group. He was also a client manager at Swiss Re and has held other roles at Sydney Re, QBE Re in London, Australian Eagle Insurance and the Victorian College of Agriculture ...

Swiss Re to use artificial intelligence in underwriting

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
Swiss Re has announced it will partner with IBM to make use of its Watson artificial intelligence technology. The first Swiss Re business line to use this "cognitive computing" service will be life and health reinsurance, and according to Swiss Re's ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... change soon, however, with new players coming into the life insurance marketplace. Some insurers (such as MetLife and Swiss Re) are entering into partnerships with supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths respectively) to offer policies to these companies' ...

CFA appoints Australia head of advocacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... 15 years' experience in senior corporate affairs roles in Australia and globally, including Commonwealth Bank, HSBC, Swiss Re, APRA and Perpetual. "Appointing a senior advocate for Australia and New Zealand gives us more scope to focus on important issues ...

Australia and Switzerland agree tax crackdown

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey and Swiss Ambassador Marcel Stutz have agreed to increase cooperation to tackle tax evasion. Under the agreement, the Australian Taxation Office will automatically receive details of financial accounts such as investment ...