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AMP profit up 32% in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... recovering and has delivered operating earnings of $188 million, compared with $64 million in 2013. "Pleasingly the wealth protection business improvement plan is delivering results and our focus is now on ensuring the changes are sustained with continued ...

IOOF embeds insurance panel to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... for their clients. AIA Australia's Priority Protection, TAL's Accelerated Protection and Zurich's Wealth Protection are the products available on the panel. These offerings include life insurance, temporal and permanent disability (TPD) and ...

AMP restructures sales teams, appoints new head

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... role of head of insurance sales had been vacant since last year with former AMP national development manager - wealth protection Leonard Sack acting in the role. Burnard told Financial Standard that Sack would remain with the business for a handover ...

Former NAB adviser launches non-aligned platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... architecture, independently owned platform with tailored advice for individuals and their families when it comes to wealth protection and inter-generation transitions." Hackney stressed the "completely independent" nature of the business, a feature she ...

Zurich adds income replacement product, increases platform presence

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... product will be available on netwealth and RetireRight. Zurich is also in discussions with Hub24 regarding its Wealth Protection range featuring on this platform. One of the main features of the product is that it provides the ability to fund premiums ...

Reporting season reveals insurance black spots

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... was set to hit revenue to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, reported a 52% drop in earnings within its wealth protection business. Similarly, ANZ has highlighted weakness in its insurance business resulting from 'above trend' lapse rates. At the ...

AMP profits up 5.4% despite insurance disappointment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... compared with $488 million for the same period in 2012, reflecting strong growth in the earnings of all but the wealth protection businesses which was affected by a challenging life insurance market, and lower underlying investment income. In wealth ...

Zurich makes platform debut, mulls providers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Zurich has entered the platform space for the first time and is set to make its Wealth Protection available in several platforms. Zurich's Retail Life and Investments general manager Philip Kewin told Financial Standard that the company is looking at ...

Lifewise joins independent dealer group

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
Queensland-based Lifewise Wealth Protection has joint non-aligned dealer group Synchron. Lifewise has 2,000 clients and its owner and managing director Chris Kelaart made the decision to join Synchron when he realised that "despite Lifewise now having ...

AMP issues profit warning on insurance claims

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... some 9% in morning trading. AMP has attributed the projected fall to poor claims and a lapse in its Australian wealth protection business in the second quarter, particularly in May. According to AMP, losses for Australian wealth protection were $32 million ...