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QIC names next chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... decades' experience in financial services and capital markets. He currently also serves as chair of PayPal, MetLife Insurance, and Sims Metals. "His global mindset and broad thinking will prove invaluable to our organisation as we further our own globalisation ...

ESSSuper welcomes strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
... Financial Complaints Authority as a strategic insights manager. deVries joins the $34 billion fund from Catholic Church Insurance, where she spent three years driving strategy and performance. Before that, she was with Club Assist Asia Pacific overseeing ...

How advisers protect themselves from 'rogue' clients

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
... client relationship] but it's particularly setting you up to protect against an AFCA complaint, professional indemnity insurance complaint (PII), or even an ethics complaint," he said. Every three years, advisers should offer clients a "re-onboarding" ...

New life insurance regulations rolled out

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones has issued life insurance regulations that aim to modernise the legislative framework. The Life Insurance Regulations 2024 establishes a threshold for annuities, dictating that the ...

ANZ gets green light for Suncorp merger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... Meanwhile, Suncorp Group chair Christine McLoughlin said the decision reflects the importance of strong, sustainable insurance and banking systems equipped to meet the changing needs of customers, communities, and the broader economy. "It's also ...

Rest faces class action over IP premiums

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... class action alleges that from December 2008 to June 2019, Rest automatically enrolled new members in income protection insurance without their active consent. It also claims that when members didn't make any contribution to their Rest account for ...

AIA adds to C-suite lineup

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... achieving high performance." According to recent data from APRA and ASIC, AIA is the second largest player in the group insurance sector in Australia. It has a 29.5% market share, providing life insurance to 2.35 million policyholders and collecting ...

New chair for iExtend

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... manages capital for institutional investors such as endowments, family offices, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. In 2017, he retired from The Sentient Group to establish Moss Ridge ...

Challenger overhauls IT, awards mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... institutional clients. The transformation involves replacing Challenger Life's core annuity registry with global insurance system ALIP (Accenture Life Insurance and Annuity Platform) and providing new customer portals. The partnership is due to commence ...

Brighter Super adds head of product

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
... product there, she led product strategy, development and management of EISS's super, pension, defined benefit and insurance offers. Saija was most recently with Aware Super where she held the title of product manager at Aware Super for three years. ...