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‘Costly and unacceptable’: IAG chairwoman lashes failures

Liam WalshReporter
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Key Points

  • Full-year revenue ($b) 18.9, up 1.7pc from $18.6
  • Pre-tax profit ($m) -389.0 v 535.0 
  • Net profit ($m) -427.0 v 435.0
  • Final dividend (¢) 13 v nil, payable Sept 22

The outgoing chairwoman of IAG has delivered a self-lashing about “organisational and risk management failures” that have cost shareholders of the insurer more than $1.5 billion.

Elizabeth Bryan, who this week said she would step down in October, cited blunders resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in customer refunds, staff underpayments and a policy-wording disaster for pandemics.

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Liam Walsh writes on investigations and companies with The Australian Financial Review. He has won multiple media awards, worked in Japan and is now based in Brisbane. Email Liam at liam.walsh@afr.com.au

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