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APRA, ASIC concerned over premium increases

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... these discrepancies, ASIC and APRA said that they expect all life companies that write, or have written, retail life insurance policies to review their past premium increases, and disclosure and marketing material. When addressing expectations around ...

ClearView launches risk product suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... customers when they need it the most while seeking to improve premium affordability and stability. "All retail life insurance companies are required to redesign and reprice their life insurance products to address the sustained underperformance of income ...

Platform hires distribution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
... at Macquarie Bank where he was responsible for establishing Macquarie Wrap, the Professional Series, and retail life insurance businesses, as well as leading the Cash Management Trust. Pettiona was the chief executive and co-founder of wealth management ...

WealthO2 names chair, director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... at Macquarie Bank where he was responsible for establishing Macquarie Wrap, the Professional Series, and retail life insurance businesses, as well as leading the Cash Management Trust. Prior to this, Roderick established HSBC Australia's corporate electronic ...

MLC Life restructures, appoints lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
MLC Life Insurance is combining its group and retail life insurance divisions to better meet client needs, saying the current level of service is not acceptable. The group has also appointed a new executive team to lead the initiative. The life insurer ...

Front loaded discounts lead to worse outcomes

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... advisers. All too often it is financial advisers that bear the brunt of these poor insurer practices." The retail life insurance industry has adopted these discounts to gain market share but the research demonstrates how over five to 20 years, policies ...

Licensee faces hefty remediation bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... individual level." ASIC first identified non-compliant advice at ClearView during an industry-wide review of retail life insurance in 2014. Broad areas of concern were highlighted by the regulator at the time - including inadequate needs analysis for ...

TAL restructures retail arm, announces job cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... advisers or customers on existing Asteron or TAL policies. "We remain committed to ensuring the Asteron retail life insurance products remain relevant and up to date post-1 July 2019 for existing Asteron customers, in the same way we do for TAL customers ...

New life insurer is RC good news story

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... little time to actually focus on what's important, and that's customers." Launched this week, Integrity's retail life insurance offering is modular, with new systems which are designed to allow advisers to quote with upfront certainty of price and outcome. ...

NEOS Life expands to the west coast

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
Retail life insurance provider NEOS Life is expanding in Western Australia with the help of three former AIA Australia staff. Reon Botha will lead the Western Australian sales team as state manager. He joined from AIA Australia where he was a senior ...
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