{"id":65614,"date":"2023-05-02T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=65614"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:41:00","slug":"integrity-life-boosts-underwriting-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/05\/02\/integrity-life-boosts-underwriting-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Life Boosts Underwriting Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity Life has expanded its operations team by appointing <strong>Matt Pereira-Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Mervyn Lam<\/strong> as Senior Underwriters.<\/p>\n<p>Pereira-Smith\u2019s experience includes working in life insurance and financial institutions, with a focus on underwriting, financial markets, and wealth management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt has been passionate about supporting advisers to educate clients about the importance of life insurance and understanding their specific needs,\u201d states Integrity Life.<\/p>\n<p>Lam is a certified Actuarial Analyst, and has experience in the development of underwriting rules software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary Bailison<\/strong>, General Manager Product &amp; Proposition, says their experience offers great value to the firm, its advisers, and customers.<\/p>\n<p>Bailison says: \u201cThese changes are in addition to other recent appointments bringing in a wealth of industry experience and capability \u2013 <strong>Liz Versace<\/strong> as Customer Care Team Leader, and <strong>Stuart Lay<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Kelly<\/strong> as Senior Claims Assessors.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65620\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Mervyn-Lam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65620\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/Mervyn-Lam.jpg\" alt=\"Mervyn Lam, Senior Underwriter at Integrity Life.\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mervyn Lam, Senior Underwriter, Integrity Life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65622\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/230502-AU-Matt-Pereira-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-65622 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2023\/05\/230502-AU-Matt-Pereira-Smith-e1682978414128.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Pereira-Smith, Senior Underwriter, Integrity Life.\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Pereira-Smith, Senior Underwriter, Integrity Life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity Life has expanded its operations team by appointing Matt Pereira-Smith and Mervyn Lam as Senior Underwriters. Pereira-Smith\u2019s experience includes working in life insurance and financial institutions, with a focus on underwriting, financial markets, and wealth management. \u201cMatt has been passionate about supporting advisers to educate clients about the importance of life insurance and understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":48844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-company-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}