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Rising interest rates tank life insurer performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... to $7.7 billion, while individual risk income increased 5% year on year to $3.2 billion. Any additional revenue life insurers earn from investing premiums in fixed interest have been wiped out as a result of rising interest rates. According to ARPA ...

CALI hires policy director from FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
The Council of Australian Life Insurers has welcomed the former policy head of the Financial Planning Association of Australia to its leadership ranks. Ben Marshan will join CALI on March 27 as director of policy and industry affairs, following an announcement ...

APRA preserves life insurance prudential standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... Investment Performance Guarantees - which were due to sunset on 1 April 2023. APRA received only two responses from life insurers during the consultation. "The respondents agreed with APRA's assessment that the four standards remained broadly fit for ...

Gender balance is smart economics: CEW

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... those targets ensures better representation at decision-making tables. On top of that, financial services companies and insurers could offer better parental leave programs, more superannuation benefits and flexible work arrangements to fast-track gender ...

Optimum Pensions urges super trustees to insure mortality risk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... stability and absorb the uncertainty in predicting future mortality rates for any group of people. Also, unlike super funds, insurers have wider risk management techniques available that can accommodate different sub-groups of customers and provide guarantees ...

Super fund advice needs more guardrails: Conference

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... personal advice to members and be subject to the proposed Good Advice Duty. However, many fear that superannuation funds, insurers and banks will gain more advice autonomy and the financial services industry will revert to the pre-Hayne Royal Commission ...

Value companies to outperform in 2023: VanEck

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... Moreover, Australian equities are trading at lower valuations relative to US equities, he said. McCormack also favoured insurers like QBE and IAG which have a captive market and pricing power. He had a more pessimistic outlook about the consumer discretionary ...

My mind has not been changed: Levy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... provider. It's the long-debated proposal that's considered the most problematic and will see superannuation funds, insurers and banks gain more advice autonomy if Treasury adopts the recommendation outlined in the Quality of Advice Review (QAR) ...

Regulation should be balanced: Levy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... financial advisers feeling burdened by excessive regulation, leading them to increase fees or leave the profession. Banks, insurers, wealth managers, and superannuation funds are also struggling with the uncertainties and disproportionate risks in the ...

Sequoia FG revises profit expectations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2023
... 2019 remediation matter involved a since terminated adviser. While its making progress with its professional indemnity insurers, Sequoia said it has "not recognised a contingent asset at this stage." However, its licensee Interprac Financial Planning ...