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Life insurers must address group risk schemes: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... both by reducing automatic acceptance levels and tightening the application of underwriting requirements for large sums insured. The regulator said the industry's response to ongoing market volatility and a persistent low interest rate environment, together ...

Westpac to refund unwanted insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... cover they did not need, either because it covered risks that were not present or risks against which they were already insured."

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... The report, which analysed 15,408 risk options offered by 235 super funds and master trusts, revealed that average sum insured per dollar per week has fallen 4.6% over the past 12 months for combined death and total permanent disability (TPD) cover and ...

Direct life outpaced by group sector

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... continued, saying that that direct insurers were struggling to compete with super funds who marketed increases in amounts insured directly to members. "Rice Warner expects superannuation funds to increase this cross and up-sell of insurance, as further ...

Early insurance claimants return to work faster

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... are based on member data from 16 Australian super funds. Rice Warner estimates this data represents 43% of all "group insured lives" in Australia. The report also examined total and permanent disability (TPD) claims, concluding that musculoskeletal issues ...

Zurich launches planner client survey tool

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... them with information such as the type of cover, level of debt, and knowledge - or lack thereof - of their clients' sum insured prior to the first meeting could be a game-changer," said Zurich head of sales strategy and research Andy Marshall. "The new ...

Xero inking partnership for real-time PI insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... interrogate that data and assess risk but also regular entry points into the data," he explained. "A lot of businesses are under-insured or over-insured. If you're operating with a variable revenue, you can sign up for PI insurance and find out later ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... needs, people can find themselves in dire straits if something goes wrong, finding out the hard way that they are mis-insured, as their policy does not cover them for the risks they thought they were protected against."

Gen Y can drive SMSF growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... form, with two thirds (66.7%) of Generation Y trustees and close to three quarters (73.2%) of Generation X trustees being insured."

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... Senator Warren, said: [the legislation] "Would separate traditional banks that have savings and checking accounts and are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from riskier financial institutions that offer services such as investment ...