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TAL executive jumps to MLC Life

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
MLC Life Insurance has announced a new addition to its leadership team, hiring from TAL. Kent Griffin has been appointed as the insurer's chief financial officer having held the same position at TAL since 2012. MLC Life said Kent will lead both the ...

Queensland adviser barred from industry

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... Financial Options advisory business. Financial Options had previously held licences as a securities dealer and life insurance broker, and had been running since 1985. The cancellation comes after Financial Options' AFS licence was suspended in August ...

Consumers trust Google over advisers: NobleOak

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... product," it said. "Regulatory changes will continue to encourage consumers to do their own research and deal with Life Insurance companies directly." Of those surveyed, only 18% were confident the issues identified by the Royal Commission would be fixed ...

Freedom Insurance appoints liquidators

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... former chief executive of Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). In December that year, it cut its life insurance business after a Deloitte review said it could face a liquidity shortfall in 2019. ASIC earlier this month, banned Mark ...

Zurich appoints distribution team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... account management. Atley is responsible for managing key dealer group partnerships across the Zurich and OnePath life insurance portfolios. They will all report to chief distribution officer Kristine Brooks. The combined leadership team will be responsible ...

AIA income protection premiums jump

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... MLC Life owner Nippon Life reported to the Tokyo stock exchange that deteriorating conditions in the Australian life insurance industry are to blame for challenges facing MLC. The international insurer specifically pointed to income protection products ...

AMP faces fresh class action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... Shine Lawyers alleges the beleaguered firm failed to act in its clients' best interests by selling in-house life insurance products at inflated prices, thus failing to provide them with objective financial advice. The class action firm said it would ...

Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... soon as possible. Ian Laughlin, convenor of the Actuaries Institute's Disability Insurance Taskforce said modern life insurance provides valuable financial benefits for people who can't earn an income due to injury or sickness. "Australia has a very ...

FSC sheds light on cancer impact

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
New life insurance claims data shows the impact cancer continues to have on the lives of Australians, with more than $1.5 billion paid out in the last financial year. According to data produced in partnership between the Financial Services Council and ...

Dealer group restructures leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... Trapnell will be stepping back from day-to-day involvement in Synchron. He has dedicated more than five decades to the life insurance and financial advice industries, and has led Synchron for more than 20 years. Unveiling Synchron's succession plan ...