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Efficiency key to performance in low-return world

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... 115 asset managers and owners, superannuation funds, financial advice groups, banks, wealth managers, corporate funds, insurers and one sovereign wealth fund. The respondents said that their two greatest concerns are generating returns and the ongoing ...

QBE chief executive departs in leadership restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... require," Moore said. QBE Australia interim chief executive Pat Regan said the role has been created in a bid to drive the insurers' technical ambitions and capability and to further improve on its existing underwriting process. "First and foremost Declan ...

Life revenue drops, profit increases

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
Life insurers recorded a net profit after tax of $2.9 billion last financial year, up 5.7% on the previous 12 months and despite a 36.1% drop in total revenue. Releasing its quarterly life insurance performance statistics yesterday, the Australian Prudential ...

Australians overconfident when it comes to income risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... engagement. "I think this really illustrates the point that financial advisers have a critical role to play, as have we as insurers, but there really needs to be a broad change that enables us to move forward on that financial literacy point." The majority ...

Greater financial literacy key to improved adviser reputation

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... to improve life insurance literacy, while 46.3% believe the responsibility should be shared between advisers and life insurers. Head of distribution for life and investments at Zurich, Kristine Brooks said the findings show it is clear that most advisers ...

TAL launches ad campaign as LIF top of mind

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... largest life insurer, TAL, has launched a new consumer brand campaign to open the dialogue between Australians and life insurers. The campaign, which launched on national television on Sunday 24 July, hopes to raise the awareness of the TAL brand and ...

Fees still an issue for alternatives: WTW

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... Achieving this would have a positive knock-on effect for managers of attracting assets from other investors, such as insurers and sovereign wealth funds, wanting to make the most of market volatility and associated alpha opportunities..." While investors ...

Nationals senator not giving up on life insurance investigation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... It's an opt-out situation and I think it should be an opt-in one, especially when, as I said, we're seeing stories about insurers failing to pay claims." Ultimately, Williams argued that it doesn't matter what the composition of the Senate ends up being ...

Industry fund reduces insurance premiums

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
... Mastrippolito said as an industry fund with a clearly defined membership base NESS Super was able to negotiate a better deal with insurers Hannover Life Re Australasia. Mastrippolito said providing a clear and consistent risk-profile of the fund's membership ...

Group market weakness hurts 12-month risk figures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
Overall risk sales at the major insurers have fallen 5.9% over the 12 months to end of March owing to significant falls in group risk sales. The latest figures from Plan For Life show even though overall risk premium inflows for March were up 6.2% ...