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TAL centralises customer service

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... changing consumer behaviours and a continuing uncertain economic climate both nationally and globally, TAL chief executive Jim Minto said. "Transforming our operating model to realign our business systems, processes and culture around our customers will ...

TAL Life CEO to sit on parent board

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
TAL Life Insurance Group (TAL) chief executive and managing director Jim Minto has been appointed to the board of Tokyo-based parent company Dai-ichi Life as executive officer. Minto will continue in his role as group chief executive of TAL. TAL chairman ...

Australians priced out of life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... unnecessary. But the survey showed very clearly that cost is the number one concern. This concern, according to TAL Group CEO Jim Minto, demonstrates lopsided priorities. "We know from our polling that some people will not let their insurance drop for ...

Major reshuffle in insurance league tables

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... grew only 3.6% in the last year. "We are pleased to see that TAL continues to grow its business," TAL managing director Jim Minto said. "However, the difference in revenue size from second to fourth is minimal and there is lumpiness in some of the revenue ...

Insurance cover through super overlooked: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... TAL survey found when only 31% of people aged 50 to 65 said they have insurance. According to TAL managing director Jim Minto, the figures should be higher because people don't realise they are insured as most will have some level of cover through their ...

Australians don't have enough insurance: TAL

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... coverage. The inaugural TAL Australian Financial Protection Index calculated a national score of 24.2. TAL Managing Director Jim Minto said: "The take up of life insurance over recent years has increased markedly through superannuation so we were surprised ...

TAL appoints new general manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... strategy and M&A. In the newly created role, Clarke will be working alongside the life insurance giant's managing director Jim Minto. He joins TAL from Oliver Wyman, where he advised financial services companies across the region on strategy and operations. ...

Life insurance industry under pressure

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... sustainable life insurance industry is currently one of the major challenges faced by Australian insurers, according to TAL. Jim Minto, managing director of Tal said this is a challenge because with the lack of interest in life insurance investment globally ...

TAL makes executive appointments

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... [the] future and we expect consumers to continue to demand more value, and challenge existing industry models," said Jim Minto, managing director, TAL. "We see this as an inevitable evolution of the life insurance market and we want to apply leading ...

TOWER completes share sale

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... in a $1.2 billion deal, agreed in December 2010. Dai-ichi has held a 29 per cent stake in TOWER since 2008 Last week Jim Minto, managing director of TOWER Australia said that TAL will be slowly introduced into the operations of the business up till November ...