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Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... splurge announced in the 2021/22 budget on May 11. But as Ella Fitzgerald sings, "into each life some rain must fall". The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence dropped by 4.8% in May from April. Then again, and as Westpac points out ...

Westpac profit climbs, executive leaves

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... Finance, Westpac Pacific, General Insurance and Lenders Mortgage Insurance. The remaining businesses to be sold include Westpac Life Insurance, Auto Finance and its superannuation, platforms and investments divisions (including BT). "We are strengthening ...

Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... Advice were sold needlessly expensive life insurance. According to Shine's case, these consumers who were advised into Westpac Life policies were charged higher premiums for life insurance than people who obtained identical insurance through independent ...

Atlas Wealth launches mortgage brokerage

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... property market. Atlas managing director for the EMEA region Brett Evans said: "Over the past five years we have seen ANZ, Westpac and NAB, who have been the traditional expat mortgage and home loan providers, reduce their offering to Australian expats ...

Risk inflows stagnant, satisfaction varies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... Members' Interests First legislation. Despite this, AIA Australia recorded 27.3% growth followed by QInsure at 3.8%. BT/Westpac recorded a negative result of 96.2%. "It should be noted that individual company growth can be significantly impacted by super ...

Brian Hartzer to release leadership book

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
Former Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer will release a professional development book on effective leadership in April. The leadership star: A practical guide to building engagement is due out next month, presents a five-point framework developed ...

Challenger names new head of life unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... and marketing, and then had a stint as acting head of retail distribution. Prior to Challenger, she worked at Mercer and Westpac in senior human resources positions. Plater has moved onto a newly created role of head of operations and technology. Actuary ...

Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... sales has taken on the role, following the resignation of Andrew Tobin last year. Rachel Grimes spent over 20 years at Westpac in several senior finance roles including director of mergers and acquisitions and chief financial officer - group technology. ...

Actuaries Institute names new president

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... KPMG, Bui first joined the consultancy firm's actuarial business in April 2004 and left eight years later to work at Westpac as an appointed actuary. She rejoined KPMG in July 2012 managing the life insurance and financial services actuarial team ...

Risk inflows stay flat

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... new research shows. The latest data from Plan For Life showed inflows decrease by 0.4% with the largest falls from BT/Westpac (-20.8%) and AIA (-10.1%). These were however, offset partially by increased inflows reported by TAL (15.7%) and ClearView (7.9%). ...