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IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... young people working in the financial services sector today faced the fallout of the GFC, working through issues of underinsurance, and how to deal with the huge savings gap issue that they and their children will have to pay for, if society does not ...

Prevention better than the cure: Asteron

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... owns Asteron), said the wellbeing program is Part One of a three-part phase to help tackle the nation's chronic underinsurance problem. He said the initiative is a win-win situation over the long term as it will cut the cost of insurance (premiums) for ...

Asset Super pumps up insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... increases to members' insurance, and boosting the sum insured to each unit of standard cover in a bid to tackle underinsurance. The $1.1 billion industry fund will increase each unit of standard cover by 2.5 per cent for the same weekly cost. Automatic ...

Aviva provides automatic insurance in super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... Andrew Barker, general manager of wealth management products at Aviva, said the firm is addressing the nation's underinsurance issue through this strategy. "We recently saw the strength and value of providing automatic life insurance through superannuation ...

MLC wins life insurer of the year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... insight," the judges said in the awards booklet. "Judges were also impressed with MLC's efforts to lower the level of underinsurance in Australian small businesses." NAB, which owns MLC, bought Aviva Australia's Navigator business in June this year which ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... Browne said that CommInsure hopes to use better insurance processing technologies to address the country's chronic underinsurance. The group is a member of the LifeWise campaign, an industry initiative to better educate the public about how to access ...

GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... said. "Our involvement in Lifewise, a public awareness campaign to help address Australia's concerning levels of underinsurance, is a prime example." The survey was conducted by Newspoll in May this year and included over 700 people aged between 18 and ...

Insurance needs more disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
The insurance industry can help address underinsurance by moving faster towards simplified disclosure, with fees and commissions displayed prominently in Product Disclosure Statements (PDS). Financial Standard asked some of the country's leading insurers ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

... Ballkids - Aust Open Tennis - AVIVA Australia Finalists Instreet Investments - Instreet Investments ING's Insurance Underinsurance Media/PR Campaign - ING Australia INVEST09 - Perennial Investment Partners Liquidnet Australia - OneProfile Communications ...

Aviva targets SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... he said He said the SME market represented a significant opportunity for financial advisers. "We talk about the underinsurance on the personal side yet you can multiply that out in terms of the magnitude when we talk about our SME clients," said Hannah. ...