Macquarie Life is looking to roll out its platform to more dealer groups following three senior recruits.
The appointments are designed to improve and boost Macquarie Life’s flagship platform FutureWise its dealer groups.
Former Asteron actuary Daniel Longden will join Macquarie as head of product and actuarial.
Suzanne Evans will join as a senior underwriter after a six year stint at Legal and General in the United Kingdom.
Former Zurich Financial Services’ life risk business development manager (BDM) has joined Macquarie Life’s Queensland office in the same role.
The appointments bring the total number of employees at Macquarie Life to 40.
“Our focus is to improving the client adviser experience [and] we are looking to really looking to differentiate our product is to integrate it with the advisers back-office and the efficiencies that can be generated by that,” Macquarie Life head Justin Delaney told InvestorDaily.
Macquarie Life is in discussions with at least three other dealer groups to badge its FutureWise platform following a deal with Count Financial last month.
The group is appointing more underwriters and a full-time BDM to Western Australia, Delaney said.
FutureWise provides products such as life insurance, trauma and disability income insurance.
It allows planners to complete an application, receive an underwriting assessment and submit the application online in around 15 minutes.
