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bfinance names new managing director, insurance lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... client consultants across all international offices. bfinance said the appointment will strengthen its ability to support insurers in navigating increasingly complex investment, regulatory and sustainability challenges, refining the firm's strategic ...

Legacy technology stagnates insurers' business progression: Clearwater Analytics

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Most insurers across the Asia Pacific are citing concerns about legacy technology, which continues to constrain business growth and talent recruitment, yet the industry remains unwilling to adopt innovation, new research has revealed. According to the ...

Investment managers ramp up AI use in front offices

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... 2026 Global InvestOps report from SimCorp surveyed 200 senior executives and operations leaders from asset managers, insurers, and pension funds across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, each managing at least US$10 billion in assets. The survey ...

Super moves: NGS Super, HESTA, Mercer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... return to Dublin to take up a new role at the €125 billion Irish Life Investment Managers, which invests on behalf of insurers, pension schemes, fiduciaries and sovereign wealth funds in Europe and the US. Stephen Murray will rejoin the Irish fund ...

Mulino wants PII to step up to make CSLR sustainable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
... are distributed via insurance brokers, who represent the insured. As at 31 December 2020, there were 10 APRA-authorised insurers writing PII in financial services out of the 22 writing PII across all sectors. Mulino estimated that Lloyd's writes ...

AMP to pay $29m to settle class action

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... that they could obtain substantially equivalent or better insurance policies than the AMP life products from alternative insurers for lower premiums." The class action was seeking compensation for excess premiums paid by group members, commissions paid ...

Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... climate change and environmental risk perceptions has decreased," Wainwright said. "As one of Australia's largest life insurers, the emergence of declining health and wellbeing as a new key concern in the survey is both alarming and unsurprising ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 executives from the asset management arms of life insurers, as well as health and general insurance companies, across Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Collectively, these insurance ...

Former Pendal insto lead quits Citi

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... 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 after exiting Citi, where she served as head ...

Why risk advice is on the verge of collapse: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... Financial Standard, Acenda partner education manager Marshall Ross agreed with Anderson's statements, arguing that life insurers need more advisers for product distribution. "Advisers have a large impact on all life insurers in Australia, because the ...