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Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Westpac has settled a class action relating to life insurance sold through its financial advice network. The class action was brought against Westpac Group by Shine Lawyers in 2017. It claimed that between 2011 and 2017, customers who received financial ...

Suncorp divests super unit to industry fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... began scouting for potential buyers in February 2020, joining a herd of large financial institutions abandoning life insurance and superannuation. Suncorp Portfolio Services landed in hot water at the banking Royal Commission for a number of issues that ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... and weak performance. IPM was founded in Sweden in 1998, attracting institutional investors like pension funds, life insurance companies and foundations from the US, Europe, Asia and Australia to its algorithm-driven macro strategy. IPM is in the process ...

Commissions likely to stay: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
The coalition has hinted that it will not eradicate commissions paid on life insurance products, acknowledging that financial advisers' bottom line has struggled since the introduction of the Life Insurance Framework reforms. While the government's ...

Pandemic spurs advice, insurance rethink

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many Australians to review their life insurance cover and seek the help of a financial adviser. This is according to the annual MetLife Adviser-Client Relationship Report, which reveals that over 40% of the participants ...

Life industry to launch framework

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The life insurance industry is developing a Professional Standards Framework for all claims and underwriting professionals, with support from the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF). The framework is being developed ...

Government merges advice reviews

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The federal government will fold the 2022 Life Insurance Framework Review into the Quality of Advice Review, taking over the responsibilities from ASIC. The Quality of Advice Review will consider the LIF Review as part of its wider mandate, Minister ...

Adviser-led TPD claim admittance rates fall

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... The admittance rates for advised individual claims continued to be higher than non-advised claims. Superannuation life insurance claims In the group super channel, admittance rates remained largely unchanged: death (98% in both years), TPD (89%, lower ...

MLC Life makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
MLC Life Insurance has made two senior appointments within its finance team, hiring from TAL and Integrity Life. Lesley Mamelok, who was formerly the acting chief executive of Integrity Life, has been appointed general manager, finance and deputy chief ...

Risk advice most sought-after among Kiwis

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
An overwhelming 70% of products that New Zealand financial advisers recommend are life insurance products, according to the country's financial markets regulator. New statistics released by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) reveals that risk products ...