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TAL executive jumps to MLC Life

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... partner of Ernst & Young and Regional chief financial officer of AXA Asia Life. Kent is also a fellow of the Actuaries Institute, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary, and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has served on several ...

Industry butt heads over super guarantee

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... all agree it's time for an upheaval. In a submission to the Treasury's Retirement Income Review Panel, the Actuaries Institute called for universal superannuation guarantee (SG) coverage for all Australian workers, including the self-employed and contractors. ...

Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
The Actuaries Institute has called for urgent reform of Australia's $5 billion disability income insurance sector. The institute said it has established a taskforce saying that failure to implement significant changes will reduce consumer access to ...

Actuaries develop retiree rule of thumb

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... savings - 6% for their decennial age, and the additional 2% - leaving them with an annual drawdown of $28,000. Actuaries Institute president Nicolette Rubinsztein said many Australians can afford to live better in retirement than they actually do, but ...

Climate change to damage returns: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
A report released by the Actuaries Institute determines superannuation balances for millennials may reduce up to 18% due to the negative effects climate change has on long-term returns. The report written by Ramona Meyricke and Rafal Chomik, states ...

Complex retirement system requires simplicity: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... fairer and more efficient ahead of the Federal Government's review of the retirement income system. The Actuaries Institute outlined a number of reforms needed to help fix the retirement system, one of which involves simplifying and integrating the ...

IOOF establishes super trustee office

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... in both her KPMG and non-executive roles, in both the listed and non-listed spaces," Griffiths said. Former Actuaries Institute president and Munich Re chief risk officer Lindsay Smartt has also joined the boards of IOOF and IOOF Investment Management ...

Industry super fund adds director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... officer to its board. Following the departure of long-serving director Andrew Cooke, AvSuper has welcomed former Actuaries Institute president Geoff Burgess as one of the fund's three employer nominated directors. AvSuper said Burgess was a qualified ...

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... director at Tillinghast-Towers Perrin. Blight-Johnston has held directorships at the Financial Services Council, Actuaries Institute of Australia, and the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance. Blight-Johnston commented: "I very ...

Genetic tests no barrier to life insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... updated moratorium brings Australia in line with the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Sweden. At the recent Actuaries Institute Summit in Sydney Westpac Group director of insurance, finance Jessica Chen provided insight into genetic testing in the ...