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AIA launches digital life insurance advice tool

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... will be integrated into AIA's LIFEapp, will provide members with education and assistance with decision making on life insurance. The tool is promised to be member-focused, providing users with insurance services in one spot. "Life insurance is vitally ...

Suncorp inches closer to NZ insurer takeover

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... the now-demutualised insurance group created in New Zealand following the establishment of the NZ Government's Life Insurance Office. Its Australian business was separated in 2006 before being acquired by Dai-ichi Life and becoming TAL.

Estate agents to become RG146 certified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... allow them to provide factual advice on what the products are and what they do," Gunning said. This includes loans, life insurance, retirement planning, general insurance, SMSFs, superannuation, managed property investments, securities and derivatives. ...

Proactive group releases life insurance guidance

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... practice guide to improve the quality and availability of insurance data for use across the industry. A collection of life insurance and superannuation bodies have released the best practice guidelines for group insurance data. Made up of the Australian ...

BT Financial Group wins Life Company of the Year

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... peers," Fox added. Strategic Insight head of sales, marketing and product development Rael Solomon said: "The retail life insurance market continues to be driven by a high level of competition between all life companies, resulting in innovation in not ...

Super industry accepts group insurance needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... industry groups recognise there is work to be done to reduce the erosion of member account balances through group life insurance. This recognition comes from the newly-formed Insurance in Superannuation Working Group (ISWG), which has an overall aim ...

AFA chief executive steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... the advice industry. Under his leadership the industry traversed FoFA, MySuper, professional standards and the Life Insurance Framework. AFA national president Marc Bineham said: "Brad has made an outstanding contribution to our profession and to the ...

MLC Life Insurance upgrades underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
The underwriting process for retail-advised life policies will be accelerated by the introduction of MLC Life Insurance's new tele-underwriting service. Halving the lengthy underwriting process, the new Fast Track service will benefit both financial ...

Life insurance industry rebuts need for greater reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... Some of the financial services industry's biggest players fronted the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into life insurance on Friday. Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane faced the panel first, telling the Committee that any further ...

Listed advice groups gaining ground

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... that enables 80% of advice recommendations to be written in-house, together with a phone-based advice system for life insurance and superannuation customers. In the first half of FY17, Yellow Brick Road reported a maiden profit and an underlying EBITDA ...