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Risk advisers a dying breed: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... report also shed light on which insurers advisers were turning to after a spate of mergers and takeovers in the Australian life insurance market, with new less established insurers such as Integrity Life attracting attention. "Industry wide, 28% of planners ...

Zurich chief to depart, successor named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... Zurich's acquisition of OnePath Life. Zurich regional chief executive for Asia Pacific Jack Howell said: "Our Australian life insurance operations are now our largest regional revenue contributor and underpin our growth aspirations throughout Asia Pacific." ...

TAL restructures retail arm, announces job cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... retail business that will make some jobs redundant after reviewing its recent acquisition of Asteron, Suncorp's Australian life insurance business. Realigning the retail businesses will consequently reduce headcount across both the TAL and Asteron ...

TAL hires former Rest executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... a 20-year agreement to sell life insurance products through Suncorp's distribution network. Suncorp's Australian life insurance offerings including term life, income protection and funeral insurance will be added to TAL's current product ...

Centrepoint pulls out of NEOS Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... refresh, a review of Centrepoint's assets and interests determined the investment in NEOS Life - also known as Australian Life Development - does not align with the business' new direction. In February 2017, Centrepoint entered a convertible note and ...

Survey says no to subsidising life insurance for genetically at-risk Aussies

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... balance between acting in the interests of those with adverse test results and the rest of the insured community. "Australian life insurance policies are for the very long term and can last for 40 or 50 years or more. The industry needs to have caps ...

New mortality study adds to retirement conversation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... 60 year old Aussie man has a 6.6% probability of dying between their 60th and 61st birthday, according to the Australian life tables 2010-2012 that are calculated by government actuaries. The new research estimates this probability could be actually ...

Zurich partners for future of work and insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... uncertainty in the economy, higher levels of consumer debt and stretched welfare budgets," Shaughnessy said. Zurich's Australian life and investments business chief executive Tim Bailey said: "The responsibility for delivering solutions needs a coordinated ...

AMP divests life business

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... Resolution Life - a UK firm with offices in the US and Bermuda, and one which has flagged further interest in the Australian life insurance market. AMP acting chief executive Mike Wilkins said the portfolio review reshapes AMP "as a simpler, more focused ...

New accounting standards put pressure on life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
Australian life insurers are unprepared for two new major accounting standards that will shake up the way profit is reported, a KPMG survey shows. The global survey of 160 life and health insurers, and reinsurers included Australian companies. It gauged ...