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MLC appoints retail insurance sales GM from BT Life

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
MLC has appointed a new general manager of retail advised insurance sales. Russell Hannah joins MLC from BT Life, where he led the group's specialist insurance sales team, having been acting head of sales - retail wealth products at MLC before that. ...

Super gap concerns plaguing over 50s

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... savings gap, with one in three women believing they'll have "far from enough to retire one", compared to one in five men. MLC's latest Wealth Sentiment Survey the quarterly survey of over 2,000 Australians found that Australians now expect to retire ...

MLC adds to advice partnerships team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
MLC has announced the appointment of its head of practice development. Michael Downey has joined the MLC advice partnerships team, brining nearly 30 years of industry experience. Having commenced the role in late May, Downey is responsible for developing ...

Foreign managers priced out of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... Standard has previously covered the difficulty of increasing allocations to alternatives in super funds primarily because of, as MLC head of alternatives strategies Gareth Abley put it, "the fee pressure the industry is under." This isn't a bad thing ...

Group risk premium inflows up 6.9%

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... market share has risen to 26.4% of the market, tied with AIA at the top of the league tables. CommInsure, MetLife and NAB/MLC round out the top five with 12.2%, 9% and 8.5% of market share respectively. Plan For Life's data also show risk income inflows ...

Government bonds no longer a safe bet

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... Speaking on the need for diversification, panel member Michael Karagianis, head of private investment consulting (NAB) at MLC Investment Management said that advisers must start to speak with clients about having a meaningful allocation to alternatives ...

MLC appoints new private equity head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
MLC has appointed a new head of private equity. Alicia Gregory has worked in MLC's private equity division for 11 years and was most recently MLC head of Europe, private equity. Prior to MLC, she held a research position at ThreeSixty Investment Strategy ...

Bank love affair with wealth management waning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... has been seen the scaling back of a number of wealth management arms. Recently National Australia Bank (NAB) sold 80% of its MLC life insurance business to Japan's Nippon Life for $2.4 billion. This was followed by its demerger with Clydesdale in the ...

Life insurers paid $6.9bn in claims in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... numbers are aggregated from AIA Australia, AMP, Asteron/Suncorp, BT, ClearView, CommInsure, Hannover, Macquarie, MetLife, MLC, OnePath, TAL and Zurich. They do not include the 14 other non-mainstream life insurers. Almost $2.9 billion was paid out in ...

Fitzpatricks hires ex-ipac adviser to head up Adelaide practice

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... which later merged with Intervest Securities, which was then merged with ipac South Australia. Prior to that, he held roles at MLC and ANZ. Commenting on his appointment, Case said: "I derive great satisfaction from the client relationship aspect of ...