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TAL goes back-to-back at AFA awards

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... winning the service quality award, while AIA's Priority Protection Life Cover Plan saw the insurer take out the term life/TPD category. The trauma and critical illness category was won by BT Financial Group for its Protection Living Plus Plan. MLC ...

Clearview overhauls life insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... LifeSolutions customers will be subject to new pricing structures from 1 March 2019. Stepped and hybrid premiums life and TPD premium rates will be lowered, while trauma, income protection and business expenses premiums will increase. Rates for new level ...

ASIC seeks new default super partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... assets, meaning roughly two-thirds of funds need not apply. Those that do must also be able to provide new ASIC employees with TPD, death and income protection insurance cover. In regards to fees, ASIC has requested interested parties outline whether ...

Superannuation a mystery to students: survey

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... casual or part-time jobs while they're studying, and that it will charge zero fees for balances under $1,000. It skips TPD (disability cover) or life cover, which the fund says helps to keep the fees low and removes the possibility of a student's ...

Super fund slashes fees, switches administrator

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... EISS said it was able to negotiate with its insurer TAL a 10% reduction in insurance premiums for members who have death, and TPD or death only cover. In terms of fees, super and pension members will no longer be charged exit fees ($35). For retirement ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... protection insurance and additional tax revenue on insurance payouts. Rice Warner's analysis on the other hand is focused on TPD insurance, the Commission said. Both analyses are "partial" as neither considered the effects of super balance erosion ...

NobleOak wins best direct life insurer award

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... In addition to scoring the Overall Direct Life Insurance Excellence Award, NobleOak took home three other gongs. It won the TPD Award for its Premium Life Direct - TPD Option Rider product; the Income Protection Award for its My Protection Plan - IP ...

Royal Commission hears industry fund admitted wrongdoing to ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... staff member whose claim was the subject of litigation after the fund's administrator - upon realising an error - returned TPD benefits to Rest without informing the member.

Insurance in super code weak: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... superannuation trustees, which included 11 life insurance providers. From the outset, there was "a very high level of variation" in TPD definitions used in the insurance products offered through the super funds. These variations make it difficult for ...

BT overhauls life cover limits and definitions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... farmers will now be able to access up to $5 million in total permanent disability cover. Meanwhile, the amount of Term Life and TPD cover made available to homemakers has increased to $2.5 million and the limit on living insurance has been raised to ...