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Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority life insurance data has revealed a negative picture of profitability being badly undermined by disability products....

Funds management

Zurich Investments and Celeste Funds Management have announced a partnership to distribute Celeste’s Australian Small Companies Fund to the Australian market....

Life/Risk

Serious questions have been raised about whether the Government even understood the existence of hundreds of thousands of ‘risk-only’ superannuation fund members when it ...

Life/Risk

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s latest Life Insurance Institution-level statistics publication has managed to paint a picture of the industry as it was u...

Policy & Regulation

Zurich has joined other insurers trying to capitalise on the current wellness trend by launching a health-tracking app that it hopes one third of new clients will use....

Life/Risk

Zurich has flagged growing its business on the back of completing its acquisition of ANZ’s OnePath life insurance business....

People & Products

Zurich has launched an on-demand self-serve ‘My Zurich’ portal for its life insurance, superannuation and investment clients to help give clients greater control and driv...

Policy & Regulation

The transaction underpinning the transfer of the ANZ OnePath Pensions and Investments business to IOOF remains on track, but ANZ has made clear it is continuing to monito...

Superannuation

Equity Trustees has announced it has finalised the acquisition of Zurich’s Australian superannuation trustee....

Life/Risk

New research has confirmed what the life insurance already knew that most consumers simply don’t want to pay for life/risk advice – something which places new importance ...

Financial planning

The planning industry faces an obstacle in ensuring consumers are aware that advisers are improving their education standards, if it wants to see the possible improvement...

People & Products

Zurich has appointed a former ANZ senior exec as head of bancassurance and direct within its life and investments business....

Awards

In the fifteenth year of the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, MLC Life has maintained its top place on the podium as the Risk Company of the Year for 2...

People & Products

Zurich Insurance Group has launched a research program in conjunction with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers, in conjunction with Zurich Life and Investments, has named its Adviser of the Year and Practice of the Year. ...

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