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Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... one of those same advisers - an "old-school lifey" - offered her a job and Douglas relocated to Canberra to be a life insurance administration assistant. She says it's here she realised the difference advisers can make in people's lives, especially ...

New life insurer is RC good news story

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... existing life insurers is the clear regulatory and technological clean air in front of it. He pointed out the "big life insurance institutions," would be preoccupied remediating customers and making significant system upgrades, while Integrity would ...

Risk advice a hard sell: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
New research from Zurich quantifies the amount consumers will pay for life insurance advice, but also reinforces the fact the majority are unwilling to be out of pocket. The Risk Advice Disconnect whitepaper revealed a minimal number (8%) of consumers ...

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 ...