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Government consults on super legislation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... or rolled over, resulting in a nil debit. He said the amendments would also ensure death benefits that include life insurance proceeds are not subject to tax when rolled over to a new super fund. Alongside the legislative amendments the Government has ...

APRA hires former MLC Life executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
The former chief customer officer of group insurance at MLC Life Insurance has joined the prudential regulator. APRA confirmed Suzanne Smith has taken on the role of general manager of superannuation for the specialised institutions division. Melbourne-based ...

BT adds extra capability to life quote software

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
Financial advisers using BT's life insurance quote and application software will enjoy new enhancements after the wealth group rolled out an update. Two new features have found their way into BT's LifeCENTRAL+ and are set to make life easier for financial ...

TAL hires former Rest executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... announced its acquisition of Suncorp Life finalised overnight. Suncorp flagged in August 2018 it will sell its life insurance arm for $725 million. The acquisition created a 20-year agreement to sell life insurance products through Suncorp's distribution ...

Freedom Insurance misses reporting deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... Freedom and its subsidiaries." Freedom announced last December it will overhaul its business model and stop selling life insurance products and is likely to face a liquidity crisis. In the same month, Bank of Queensland backed out of its agreement with ...

Advice firm hires chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... ventures (25%), wealth management including financial and retirement planning, investment advice, SMAs, SMSFSs and life insurance (21%) and two minority firm investments and other revenue (8%). Together, they turned total revenue of $21 million last ...

ClearView posts first half profit dip

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
ClearView posted a 13% dip in its underlying NPAT in the first half as it repositions pricing of its life insurance and wealth management products. The ASX-listed diversified financials has three main businesses: life insurance, wealth management and ...

AFA rebukes ideological drive against conflicted remuneration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... clients if you have reduced access to top training and education." Speaking about Hayne's "strong bias" to have life insurance commissions removed from the industry, Anderson also questioned the Commissioner's motives. "And this is in large-part drawn ...

Labor responds to Royal Commission final report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... Government has said it will look to ban the payments from 1 January 2021. The party will also look to end the hawking of life insurance products and to ensure there are consequences when big banks breach industry codes, as well as ban life insurance ...

Clearview overhauls life insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Clearview is introducing a number of pricing changes to its LifeSolutions offering. New LifeSolutions customers will be subject to new pricing structures from 1 March 2019. Stepped and hybrid premiums life and TPD premium rates will be lowered, while ...