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Colonial First State names head of insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
The former head of group insurance at Munich Re will now lead Colonial First State's insurance business. Effective this month, Adrian Fortescue has joined Colonial First State in the role. Fortescue joins from Munich Re Australia where he was head of ...

Industry fund ups life insurance premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
Members of a $6.7 billion industry superannuation fund will soon see their group insurance premiums rise. LUCRF Super has informed members the cost of death and total and permanent disability, and death only cover as provided by OnePath will go up on ...

MTAA Super increases premiums amid merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... is due to the removal of age cross subsidisation within MTAA Super," the spokesperson said. Historically within group insurance, cross subsidisation has been used to ensure insurance cover was cost effective across all members of the fund. In recent ...

MLC Life appoints transformation lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... the insurer's ongoing transformation strategy, which also includes the recent unification of its retail and group insurance businesses. In September last year, chief life insurance officer Sean McCormack said: "Frankly speaking, I recognise that ...

Super fund ousts ethical manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... sustainable, long-term investment returns for its members." Separately, LGIAsuper made a raft of changes to its group insurance offering in November last year which chief executive Kate Farrar said demonstrate the fund's members-first philosophy. ...

Group insurance using shoddy data: Rice Warner

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
The poor quality of group insurance data is conducive to administrative blunders that are notoriously difficult to rectify, according to Rice Warner. Superannuation funds and their life insurance partners are falling short of improving data collection ...

MTAA, Tasplan reveal new brand

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... Interests First and Protecting Your Super reforms and subsequent decrease in the number of members covered by its group insurance policy. Tasplan chair Naomi Edwards said: "Our name is our future, so it was important we embraced something our members ...

HESTA hikes group insurance premiums again

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... For the second time in a year, the $52 billion superannuation fund is increasing the total cost of its standard group insurance cover for members. HESTA's standard insurance cover -- which eligible members automatically receive upon signing up unless ...

AustralianSuper breached member's privacy: Regulator

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... member filed over three and a half years ago. The member, who is identified in court documents as WG, lodged a group insurance claim with AustralianSuper in November 2014 during which they engaged two law firms. However, by the time AustralianSuper paid ...

AMG Super rebrands divisions to cut costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... Hannover Life Re, which will continue to insure its members before its planned pull back from the superannuation group insurance market in Australia.