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Infocus continues leadership expansion with new appointment

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2026
... various insurance and financial institutions earlier in his career. He also stationed at MLC Insurance, Aviva, Mortgage Insurance in senior and leadership capacities. More recently, he was the managing director at Financial Advice Matters for more than ...

AustralianSuper names chief financial officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
... financial officer for cash and transactional banking and insurance businesses (life, general and lender's mortgage insurance) at Westpac for over eight years before joining QBE Insurance in April 2024. Commenting, Chen said she is looking forward ...

Taxes and housing dominate election race

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... Labor party's '5% deposit' policy raises many questions. Since the government is essentially providing mortgage insurance for low-deposit purchasers, what is the true cost? What happens if a buyer defaults? How are commercial banks treating these ...

TAL appoints chief claims officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
... staff of the institutional bank division. She then became chief operating officer of life, general, and lenders mortgage insurance at BTFG before taking on a newly created role as executive director to oversee insurance mergers and acquisitions and transformation ...

Residential mortgages will defy headwinds: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
... considerably lower than the banking (ADI) sector. And we note most loans of LTV > 80% would be subject to lenders mortgage insurance (LMI)," the whitepaper reads. Agreeing with S&P's March research note, Foresight believes that despite the difficult ...

Household Capital acquires Pension Boost

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... pillar of retirement funding." Earlier this year, Household Capital also partnered with Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance. Genworth took a 22% stake in Household Capital, concluding a $37.6 million series C capital raise. It joined as an investor ...

Household Capital partners with Genworth

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance has taken a 22% stake in home equity retirement funding provider Household Capital, concluding a $37.6 million series C capital raise. Speaking to Financial Standard, Household Capital chief executive Joshua Funder ...

TAL completes acquisition of Westpac Life

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
... important step in Westpac's ongoing strategy to simplify, having also offloaded its general insurance and lenders mortgage insurance units in Australia and its New Zealand life insurance business.

NSW to introduce options for first home buyers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... for existing dwellings. Participants must have a minimum 2% deposit of the purchase price, with no lenders mortgage insurance required and earn a maximum gross income of $90,000 for singles and $120,000 for couples. The property purchase price must be ...

Westpac outlines new social initiatives

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... including increasing home ownership rates among females. Westpac has expanded eligibility for its existing Lender's Mortgage Insurance (LMI) Waiver to include more health professions. The LMI Waiver now includes eight further allied health professions ...
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