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MetLife expands retail arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
MetLife Australia continues to bolsters its retail division with four key appointments. Marcus Chan joins MetLife as sales manager for New South Wales. He came from BT Financial Group where he worked as a business development manager. Also from BTFG ...

Vamos joins embattled insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
Industry stalwart Pauline Vamos is set to become chair of an ASX-listed insurance company which was taken to task during the Royal Commission. Vamos is now a non-executive director on the board of Freedom Insurance Group, the insurer that was admonished ...

MetLife welcomes new group product head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
MetLife has confirmed the appointment of a new head of group product, joining from Swiss Re. Dean Mulheron will lead MetLife's group product design and oversee product development and strategy across the group insurance portfolio. Mulheron replaces ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Integrity Life appointed a new head of retail product as it continues to expand its operations. William Rogers joins the life insurance provider from CommInsure, where he was a senior product development and research manager for the last three years. ...

AFA shines spotlight on member service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
The Association of Financial Advisers recognised a number of its members for their exceptional service to the association, including across new categories. Traditionally comprising the AFA Appreciation Award alone, this year the AFA introduced two new ...

MetLife scores group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
MetLife has won a group insurance mandate from an $8.8 billion superannuation fund. Tasplan appointed MetLife to deliver insurance offerings to its 145,000 members, replacing incumbent group insurer CommInsure. Tasplan chief operations officer Nick ...

Insurance shake-up puts clients first

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
Round six of the Royal Commission exposed systemic issues across the life insurance value chain and its fledgling code of practice that's yet been powerless to stop unethical behaviour. But industry experts say all hope is not lost. Counsels assisting ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
In closing the sixth round of the Royal Commission, counsel assisting found that CommInsure, TAL and Rest may have engaged in conduct that fell below community standards after hearing "troubling" evidence from various case studies. CommInsure and Colonial ...

CommInsure misled FOS: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
CommInsure admitted it misled the Financial Ombudsman Service that was helping resolve a claimant's dispute by deliberately withholding medical information and delaying the process, the Royal Commission heard yesterday afternoon. Counsel assisting ...

ClearView breached anti-hawking law 300k times

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
The sixth round of the financial services Royal Commission heard ClearView's direct life insurance business breached anti-hawking provisions up to 303,000 times. The figure has ballooned from the 278,664 originally reported to the Commission, according ...