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AIA extends IP insurance to target baby boomers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
Life insurance company AIA Australia has extended its Income Protection benefit to include workers up to the age of 70, as baby boomers work beyond the traditional retirement age. AIA will also include true level premiums to age 70 for life cover, TPD ...

ASIC releases more detail on limited AFS licence

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... also be able to give advice on superannuation products, securities, simple managed investment schemes, general and life insurance and basic deposit products.

Direct insurance sales grow on consumer confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
Australia's direct life insurance market has shown significant growth over the last year at the expense of the traditional advice sales channel, according to Rice Warner. Rice Warner's latest Direct Life Insurance Market Report showed direct insurance ...

NZ Super Fund inks US$275m UK mandate deal

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... US$1.4 billion in the insurance-linked securities spectrum in both life and non-life linked assets. Exposure to life insurance products and New Zealand catastrophes is excluded from the mandate. The NZ Super Fund invests money, on behalf of the New Zealand ...

NDIS does not replace life insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... DisabilityCare system, formerly known as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), does not replace the need for life insurance, argues AIA Australia (AIA) in a briefing note to advisers. "When the concept of the DisabilityCare scheme (formerly ...

Affinia appoints new national manager

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... of choice for specialist risk professionals in Australia. Sitparan Gnanendran has been appointed the specialist life insurance advice dealer group's new national manager, advice. As national manager, advice, Gnanendran will be oversee technical risk ...

Australians priced out of life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
More than two in five Australians cannot afford basic life insurance a survey suggests. The survey by TAL of 1260 people across Australia also found that 17% believe their health insurance provides the same sort of cover as life insurance. The survey ...

TOWER Life business sold to Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
TOWER Limited has sold most of its life insurance business to Fidelity Life in deal worth $189 million. Fidelity Life is a New Zealand owned company that specialises in life insurance, personal protection, business insurance, savings, investment and ...

Industry pays tribute to Paul Riegelhuth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... Synchron in 1998, Trapnell followed him a year later. "Paul was incredibly knowledgeable and professional in the life insurance industry," Trapnell said. "But he loved the Collingwood Football Club, AC/DC and Jimmy Barnes and had a crazy sense of humour." ...

Austock Group company secretary resigns

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... Group chief executive Bill Bessemer told Financial Standard that Austock was planning to inject capital into the life insurance division of the company. "After we sold our broking business, we are looking to reduce our labour force, re-aligning jobs ...