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CBA appoints board director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... board, starting 1 January 2019. Retiring director Brian Long will stay on the board until 31 December, at the board's request to ensure continuity in director succession. O'Malley was BlueScope Steel's managing director and chief executive for more than ...

Freedom sold life insurance to intellectually disabled man: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
Freedom Insurance sold life insurance to an intellectually disabled man, and only cancelled the policy after several instances of correspondence with his family, the Royal Commission heard yesterday. Giving testimony at the second day of life insurance ...

TAL enhances musculoskeletal underwriting initiative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
Life insurer TAL has enhanced its musculoskeletal underwriting guidelines to manage neck pain and promote spinal health. The refreshed guidelines will enable advisers to better understand why underwriting exclusions are applied following neck pain and ...

TAL waives life premiums for drought-stricken farmers

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
Life insurer TAL will waive insurance premiums for drought-affected farmers in New South Wales and Queensland for a period of six months, it announced today. TAL retail customers who are eligible for the Federal government's farm household allowance ...

NAB initially under-reported remediation bill to ASIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... "Secondly, in relation to the SWIFT and Encompass matter...in our minds there was no cross-reference between [ASIC's] request for the update to the matter relating 108,000 customers and Mr Tanzer," Hagger said. Earlier in the session, Hagger was asked ...

Failed industry fund merger laid bare at Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... the merger. "So we were getting mixed intel," Wilson said. Around the same time, the Energy Trades Union (ETU) sent a request to Energy Super's board requesting it and the Queensland Services Union (QSU) be named in the proposed constitution to secure ...

Philanthropists should reimagine data management: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
Perpetual research presents new strategies for the philanthropic and not-for-profit sectors that mitigate data risks and helps them get ahead in an increasingly digital technology-centric society. Perpetual national manager of philanthropy and non-profit ...

Plan service fees did not constitute fee for no service: NAB

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Responding to questions from counsel assisting Michael Hodge, former NAB general manager of superannuation and platforms Paul Carter attempted to distinguish between other cases of fees for no service and NAB charging superannuation customers for advice ...

Equity Trustees responds to GAM suspension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Equity Trustees halted applications into and redemptions from two GAM Investments funds following the suspension of the global manager's fixed income investment director. In a letter to unitholders, Equity Trustees - as responsible entity for the ...

Life insurers cautious about My Health Record

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... checks at policy application stage, could be added to the My Health Record, which may help treating doctors avoid having to request duplicate testing," Phillips said. "In all cases this would only be possible with customers' full consent." In a statement ...