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NGS Super lifts premiums for older members

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... more tailored towards members' needs. NGS Super found that younger members, for example, were often significantly over-insured. They therefore lowered the premiums paid by members in their late teens and twenties, providing correspondingly lower coverage. ...

FSS increases insurance premiums

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... through all super funds." In addition to premium increases there will be some changes to the employer category ratings. Sum insured per unit is not expected to change. While the premium increase are a significant event, Dwyer said in the letter to members ...

Insurers now in full recovery mode

STAFF WRITERS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... consequent capacity across a range of product lines and industries is bringing renewed opportunities for insurers and insured's alike. Additionally, there is an increasing level of 'alternate capital' that is now entering the market and is prepared to ...

Guardian Advice monetises new medical service for advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... process as easy and efficient as possible, it will result in more revenue for our advisers and getting more Australians insured," Guardian Advice head Simon Harris said. Under the new program, the adviser will be able to log in to the Health Predictions ...

Direct insurance races for advised market share

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... by approximately 25% at an entry age of 30 years old and 60% at an entry age of 45 against an advised product with sum insured of $250,000. Also, a Stand Alone Trauma cover of $200,000 is on average cheaper by approximately 30% at an entry age of 30 ...

NDIS does not replace life insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... will, however, not cover people for loss of income, wrote AIA. "Life insurance is primarily concerned with whether the insured person meets the defined event and policy terms regardless of the level of support available to them through their families ...

UniSuper nearly ready to award $25m insurance contract

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... The incumbent insurer is Hannover Life Re. Currently part of the insurance with the fund's accumulation product is self-insured. "Under the requirements of the new legislation, this component will be outsourced taking the total value of the external ...

Insurance cover through super overlooked: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
Baby boomers often don't realise that they are insured through their superannuation fund, a TAL survey found when only 31% of people aged 50 to 65 said they have insurance. According to TAL managing director Jim Minto, the figures should be higher because ...

Virgin blazes trail with redundancy cover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... following a phenomenal take-up of its existing offering, including income cover that pays up to $3,000 a month if the insured is made redundant. The group's managing director David Curneen told Financial Standard that Virgin's insurance business has ...

Super operating costs rise to $150 per member

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... these factors and this is confirmed to some extent by the much lower increases in corporate funds where comprehensive insured benefit programs have been a feature for many years."