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Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... is also likely to prevent them mounting a significant campaign in response to the policy shift, notwithstanding underinsurance is a major issue that has long unified all sectors of wealth management in Australia. The Federal Opposition has criticised ...

Better insurance for WA LGSP

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... all uninsured members. According to a statement on the fund's website, WA LGSP is seeking to address its members' underinsurance problems, particularly those who do not have enough life cover. The fund had teamed up with its life insurer, Tower Australia ...

Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... REST," said Hill. REST's new model is also built to narrow the gap between the overinsurance of some members and underinsurance of others, said Hill. For instance, prior to this model, members were covered for up to around $93,000 from an early age until ...

Life insurance too complicated: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... and hard to understand. ING Australia's life insurance research 'She'll be right: Australia's attitudes towards underinsurance' found 41 per cent of respondents find life insurance too complex. The survey results also found 26 per cent of those without ...

Top guns tackle industry challenges

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... 2008 Deloitte/IFSA Future Leaders Award for her paper that proposed a ten-point action plan to solve the country's underinsurance problems. IFSA's chief executive Richard Gilbert said Knapp's paper demonstrated a deep understanding of the issue and employed ...

Saropa signs on six cos

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... Saropa's services. The Saropa product allows financial advisers to equip clients with a personal disaster recovery and underinsurance assessment service. The tech firm also has a relationship with CGU Insurance - which means advisers are able to earn ...

IFSA launches insurance campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... the way Australians perceive insurance. IFSA unveiled the new campaign designed to address the nation's chronic underinsurance problem. Various reports have shown that many Australians are so underinsured that a job less or death of the family breadwinner ...

Life insurance made easy: AIG

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... declaration of continued good health," said AIG Life head of adviser services, David Mounsey. Mounsey acknowledged that underinsurance remains the bane of many insurers, and AIG's campaign is targeted towards customers who are existing AGI Life's Priority ...

TOWER's business set to soar

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... Australia. These include increased household wealth in recent years with rising personal debt levels and acknowledged underinsurance, favorable mortality rates, and the compulsory superannuation regime that allows tax-effective purchase of risk products. ...

Advisers endorse rural insurance top guns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... medical facilities so it takes a while to get the information to them," said Gledhill. Williams said Australia's underinsurance problem was magnified in the non-metropolitan areas. "Some of the factors contributing to underinsurance in rural Australia ...