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Asteron Life rewards healthy lifestyles

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
Asteron Life is rewarding financial adviser's clients who have a healthy lifestyle with the introduction of several life insurance discounts. Eligible clients will be provided up to 25% in savings by answering simple lifestyle questions. Asteron's head ...

ClearView slams APL standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... and can't recommend. According to the APL draft report, when considering products for inclusion, the FSC will conduct a premium analysis on a range of product scenarios as a proxy to determine the competitiveness of an insurance product, which isn't ...

FSC launches draft APL standard for risk advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... appropriate insurance products that meet individual client needs and objectives." "This may involve a trade-off between cost (premium) and the benefit or features of products, including definitions and sums insured required to address the client needs. ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... increase in assets over the last 12 months, with only 29% recording falls compared to 36% last year. Preqin manager of premium publications and editor of the report, Selina Sy, said sovereign wealth funds comprise some of the largest single investors ...

Coles sheds life insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Supermarket giant Coles quietly exited the life insurance industry less than three years after launching a directly distributed offer. As of 1 January 2017, Coles Life Insurance policy holders became customers of MetLife - the insurer whose MetLife ...

Super insurance maintains active pricing: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... average increase in cover value, stand-alone death only cover changes saw a slight decrease in cover value per dollar of premium for white collar members, Rainmaker said. The quarterly movements in insurance cover per premium dollar, coupled with the ...

Industry model costing good advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
The proposed industry funding model to help ASIC regulate poor advisers is at the cost of those behaving professionally and ethically, according to the Association of Financial Advisers. The ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill, which details an ...

Not our job to protect big insurers: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
The rise of peer-to-peer insurance and smaller insurance tech companies should be taken as a warning to established players - and APRA isn't going to protect outdated business models from failing. APRA member and former Suncorp Life chief executive ...

Insurers lagging on mental health

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... discriminate based on disability, mental or otherwise, this should only be done to the extent that it affects the risk premium. He said that insurers also need to be more transparent in regards to the reasons behind policy decisions as they pertain to ...

BTFG announces giant Panorama leap

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
BT Financial Group will merge 12 superannuation funds into one as part of the rollout of its $630 million Panorama platform and in a major update of the wealth management business. Announced to the market this morning, BTFG will also move from four ...