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Vanguard restructures retail unit, creates executive roles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... superannuation and non-superannuation offerings. Renae Smith will become the chief of Personal Investor from July, hailing from AIA Australia where she was chief customer experience and operations officer. She will lead a new division responsible for ...

Boutique appoints head of distribution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... business development in New South Wales and the ACT for close to two years. He has also previously held distribution roles with AIA Australia and BT Financial Group, and also served as a claims assessor at AXA. Innova managing director and co-chief investment ...

HESTA revamps insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2023
HESTA has renewed its mandate with AIA Australia and, in doing so, made a raft of changes to its insurance offering. HESTA notified members it has renewed its insurance arrangements with AIA, extending the relationship that's been in place since 2017. ...

TAL, AIA dominate group life market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2023
... insuring 3.9 million lives with annual premiums totalling $830 million. The sum insured under TAL policies is $843 billion. AIA boasts a 29.5% market share, providing life insurance to 2.35 million policyholders and collecting annual premiums of $606.6 ...

AIA launches retail rewards program

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023
AIA Australia has launched an incentive program for new retail clients in a bid to encourage healthy behaviours. The insurer offers Healthier Life Reward to new customers who are non-smokers with a body mass index between 18-26 and have no medical loading. ...

Rising interest rates tank life insurer performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... the year to September 2022. TAL continues to hold the lion's share of the market at 33% of nearly $6 billion, followed by AIA, which holds 18% at $3.3 billion. The third largest player, Zurich, owns 14% of the market saw a 6% year on year increase in ...

CALI hires policy director from FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
... strategy. Marshan and Johnston join Keely O'Brien, the general manager of corporate affairs and strategy, on the executive team. AIA Australia, Challenger, ClearView, General Reinsurance Life, Hannover Re, Integrity Life, MetLife Australia, MLC Life ...

Advice complaints decelerate: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2023
... related to financial advice, down 47% from 2021, AFCA acting lead ombudsman investments and advice Shail Singh told the annual AIA Adviser Summit. Several key issues have emerged from complaints filed in 2022, which may have declined but tended to be ...

AIA adds four regional managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2023
AIA is growing its retail distribution capabilities, adding four regional managers to the business to better support financial advisers. Following the appointment of Craig Parker as general manager, retail distribution, AIA has reformed its managerial ...

Australian Retirement Trust, AvSuper sign merger MoU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... fund also highlighted ART's extensive experience with defined benefit schemes and the fact that they both already share AIA Australia as insurer. "We are confident that this merger will be favourable to our members in the short and long term," AvSuper ...