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TAL enhances TPD offering, support for self-employed customers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... protection. The integrations follow TAL's partnership with SANE to provide mental healthcare programs last month. The life insurer has updated the Accelerated Protection offering with the launch of the TPD Support Option, specifically for certain mental ...

Mulino wants PII to step up to make CSLR sustainable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
... recent Financial Advice Association Congress, he shared that one large AFSL had to fly to London to negotiate with the insurer Lloyd's of London to cover a portion of a determination. The AFSL ended up paying for half and eventually forced the insurer ...

AMP to pay $29m to settle class action

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
AMP has settled a class action brought by Shine Lawyers in 2020, which claimed the firm's financial advisers breached their fiduciary and statutory duties to an estimated 100,000 clients. The AMP commissions and insurance class action was commenced ...

Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
Findings from World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey suggest Australian business leaders are most concerned with economic risks like recession in the coming years. The Executive Opinion Survey, conducted in partnership with Zurich and Marsh ...

Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... small Melbourne crew." Finally, NZ Super's Barbara Salazar has gone the other way - jumping from a super fund to an insurer. She joined the Suncorp New Zealand after six years with the NZ$86 billion sovereign wealth fund, where she served as senior ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

Former Pendal insto lead quits Citi

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Citi's institutional sales head is leaving for the nation's largest bank to manage key relationships with superannuation funds, sponsors, asset managers and insurers. Nicki Ashton is set to join Commonwealth Bank as a global relationship manager ...

Why risk advice is on the verge of collapse: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
The challenges around risk advice have forced many advisers to abandon the sector. With greater complexity and a dwindling number of specialists, experts fear the risk market may cease to exist, the FAAA Congress 2025 has heard. There are currently ...

Japanese insurer acquires stake in Barings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
A Japanese insurance company is taking an 18% stake in Barings to support its long-term growth strategy. MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, via subsidiary Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., will acquire 18% of Barings from MassMutual. MassMutual will continue ...

TAL to provide mental healthcare program via partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... healthcare experience for people no matter where they live across the country." TAL said mental ill-health has been the life insurer's leading cause of claims for four consecutive years, with over 11,000 Australians making claims in relation in 2024-25 ...