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CommInsure raises red flag about underinsurance

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... research shows that more than half of respondents (56%) have been or know of someone to have been hospitalised due to a car accident, 48% due to sports accidents; and 42% following an accident at work. Additionally, one third have been or have known ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... demand for Australian thermal coal. The third was the current "cyclical" downturn that was likely to continue." "It's an accident they're coming all at once, but they are". Well find out later today if Prof Garnaut's warning is enough to scare the RBA ...

Life risk inflows up 10.4pct

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... rates. The largest growth in inflows came from the Individual Risk Income Market, covering income protection, sickness and accident, and business expenses insurance. Inflows in this market were up 10.8% year on year, influenced by both the price and ...

Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
Following in the footsteps of microfinance, microinsurance schemes have grown substantially in the past five years to now reach an estimated 500 million policy holders. Microinsurance aims to protect poor people in emerging nations against traditional ...

Tax and Super bill doesn't go far enough: SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals Association of Australia claims the government's excess contribution tax threshold of $10,000 is not high enough. The Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment bill was introduced into parliament last week, which ...

Zurich updates Life Risk product

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... allows for a monthly benefit that pays when a spouse is unable to perform domestic duties because of ill-health or an accident, with no increase to premium. Zurich has also added a flexible cover benefit option, whereby insured expectant mums or a new ...

PJC hears FOFA lost in translation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
FOFA has lost its way, according to the AFA presentation to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services currently underway at NSW Parliament House in Sydney. Drawing a comparison with recent price wars between the major ...

Euro debt crisis has silver lining for advisers: PIMCO

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Australian financial advisers should not fear the ongoing European debt crisis if they play their cards right, according to PIMCO's US-based head of global and emerging markets product management, David Fisher. Speaking to Australian advisers last week ...

AIA Australia launches life product upgrade

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Life insurance provider AIA Australia has upgraded its priority protection product to include severe diabetes as a crisis event under its benefits listings in response to skyrocketing cases in the Australian population. It is reported that some 275 ...

Advisers need to get wise to insurance turn offs, CommInsure

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... going to happen to me' mindset. "The stats don't support that people are not going to be touched by adversity, either accident or illness," said Browne. "We as an industry have got to meet the cost issue head on, and the 'it wont happen to me' issue ...