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MLC Life Insurance raises $650 million

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... long-term view. This additional capital also supports our strategic goals. These include playing a larger role in the group insurance market, developing the industry's leading claims function, and making it more efficient for advisers and superannuation ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... increased pressure to do away with the outdated Activities of Daily Living definition. ASIC also released a report on group insurance, finding that default insurance through super was often misunderstood by consumers and didn't always provide value ...

Integrity Life partners for group insurance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
Integrity Life has announced a new partnership with the aim of bringing new levels of flexibility to pooled group insurance arrangements. Integrity Life and Insurope have partnered to bring a multinational pooling offering to the Australian group insurance ...

Key AMP executive resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... market and customer experience. Her experience in superannuation and wealth management covered corporate super, group insurance, pricing, and operations, working for large institutions such as NAB and its former subsidiary MLC. Bourguignon spent over ...

Retail fund ups premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... specify a reason for the 23% increase in its notice to member. Diversa is the trustee for ING Living Super and group insurance for the fund is provided through MetLife.

ASIC explores value for money in default group insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... conditions. The regulator also identified that different cohorts of members seem to be receiving different outcomes from group insurance. ASIC said younger members and those in insurance policies with more restrictive terms and conditions are likely ...

TAL group life lead in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... manager of group life is set to take on a new role at Zurich in March. Darren Wickham has been appointed head of group insurance at Zurich, joining the insurer's leadership team. With about 30 years' experience as an actuary and in superannuation ...

ASIC to improve default insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
An ASIC investigation found group insurance cover is poorly designed and disclosed to members who are being defaulted into occupational categories with limited data. After looking at the practices of super funds, ASIC found a high proportion of members ...

Hannover reverses out of group insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... said. Hannover has two main businesses in Australia: working directly with superannuation trustees to provide group insurance to funds, and a reinsurance business.

Insurance in super is confusing: Consumers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... Research, the report draws on 50 in-depth interviews with members who had engaged with their super fund around group insurance within the last year. Completed between May and June, some of the participants were already thinking about the impact of COVID-19. ...