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MLC Life Insurance launches wellbeing service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
MLC Life Insurance has launched its Vivo health, wellness and recovery service to support its customers wanting to improve wellbeing throughout all life stages. All customers insured by MLC Life Insurance will be supported by Vivo under one brand. It's ...

Aussie crypto investors bullish despite market volatility

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
Digital investment platform Syfe has released new findings from an independent investor survey, coinciding with the launch of its product to the Australian market. At a Sydney media briefing, Syfe general manager and Australia country head Tim Wallace ...

AMP to return $1.1bn to shareholders

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
Despite seeing its net half-year profit drop about 25%, AMP has commenced a $350 million buyback and plans to return a further $750 million to shareholders. Releasing its first-half results this morning, AMP said it has made significant progress towards ...

Business confidence, conditions rally: NAB

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
National Australia Bank's (NAB) latest business survey reported business confidence has risen above average levels and conditions have strengthened. Business confidence bucked a trend of steady monthly declines, rising seven index points. NAB called ...

NEOS Life appoints sales, culture leads

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
The life insurer has welcomed a new head of sales, as the incumbent moves into a newly created role overseeing culture and performance. NEOS Life has welcomed Harry Georges as head of sales, recruiting him from digital insurer, iptiQ. He brings more ...

NAB falls after cost growth revision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... offset by productivity. FY22 cost growth is now expected to be approximately 3-4% which includes a top-up payroll and customer related remediation provisions of $60-100 million for existing matters. Nevertheless, NAB posted unaudited cash earnings of ...

What the QAR should focus on: MLC Life

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... key life moments. This includes maintaining the Life Insurance Framework," it said. Scaled advice tailored to specific customer needs is also required, it said. "For life insurance, this could be as simple as a life cover assessment that may or may not ...

How Australians are losing retirement returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
Australians are missing out on potential retirement returns by not regularly salary sacrificing, according to new research by Finder. A Finder survey has shown 86% of Australians don't top up their super fund regularly. What's more, it found only one ...

APRA releases annual corporate plan

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
APRA published its updated plan to reinforce the financial soundness of the banking, insurance and superannuation industries over the next four years, with few surprises on offer. The priorities in APRA's new Corporate Plan for 2022-2023 are based ...

Super fund climate risk assessment results released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
APRA has published the findings of a voluntary climate risk self-assessment survey conducted across the entities APRA regulates. Sixty-four medium to large institutions responded to the survey, which was designed to provide insights into how institutions ...