Life Insurance Consulting

Meet our Life Insurance Team
PFS Principal Phil Stott

Phil Stott

Principal

David Rush PFS Consulting Principal 2

David Rush

Principal

Working with Life Insurers

Examples of where we've bought our core strengths to help our clients are provided in the case studies below.

Large life insurer

Group Life Insurer engaged PFS to conduct an independent assessment of operational risk with respect to a major superannuation fund partner. This incorporated in-depth analysis followed by recommendations to enhance existing operational controls and to better leverage data for further business benefit. by recommendations to enhance existing operational controls and to better leverage data for further business benefit.

Large reinsurance group

Major insurance player utilised the market advisory services of PFS to assist in the divestment of a life insurance asset. This included advice in relation to market assessment, deal structuring and negotiation.

Integration of purchased life insurer

PFS have project managed the integration of a small Australian life insurer purchased by another APRA-licensed life insurer. We combined our expertise across local regulatory requirements, actuarial valuation and insurance knowledge, risk management, capital, audit and governance to help manage the integration and licensing requirements.

Due Diligence

Credit provider engaged PFS to conduct due diligence on a third party with respect to the financial and life elements of the arrangement. We recommended mitigants to address key risk areas.

Meet our Life Insurance Team
PFS Principal Phil Stott 2

Phil Stott

Principal

David Rush PFS Consulting Principal 3

David Rush

Principal

Working with Life Insurers

Examples of where we've bought our core strengths to help our clients are provided in the case studies below.

Large life insurer

Group Life Insurer engaged PFS to conduct an independent assessment of operational risk with respect to a major superannuation fund partner. This incorporated in-depth analysis followed by recommendations to enhance existing operational controls and to better leverage data for further business benefit. by recommendations to enhance existing operational controls and to better leverage data for further business benefit.

Large reinsurance group

Major insurance player utilised the market advisory services of PFS to assist in the divestment of a life insurance asset. This included advice in relation to market assessment, deal structuring and negotiation.

Integration of purchased life insurer

PFS have project managed the integration of a small Australian life insurer purchased by another APRA-licensed life insurer. We combined our expertise across local regulatory requirements, actuarial valuation and insurance knowledge, risk management, capital, audit and governance to help manage the integration and licensing requirements.

Due Diligence

Credit provider engaged PFS to conduct due diligence on a third party with respect to the financial and life elements of the arrangement. We recommended mitigants to address key risk areas.

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Core Strengths

We have extensive Retail and Group Life insurance knowledge built from years of experience and are independent of insurance product providers.

Core Strengths

We have extensive Retail and Group Life insurance knowledge built from years of experience and are independent of insurance product providers.

Recent Articles

Recent Articles

NZ Prudential Standards
In August of 2025, the New Zealand Cabinet approved the preparation of an amendment to the Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010, colloquially known as “IPSA”....
Establishing a bank in Australia
The PFS team has been involved in numerous APRA and ASIC licencing projects including Banks (ADIs), Restricted ADIs (RADIs) and Insurers. PFS has firsthand experience of the challenges, APRA’s expectations...
APRA Submission, Governance Review
PFS Consulting supports enhancing governance standards but believe additional clarity is needed on some specific elements of the proposals, and how they will be implemented and enforced. We also think...

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