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AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... able to increase their life insurance without providing evidence of health via a new product recently launched by AIA Australia. The life insurer's new Business Safeguard Forward Underwriting Benefit (FUB) will allow business owners to increase their ...

AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... were BT Financial Group and Asteron Life. Claims Team Award was for Macquarie Life. Finalists were Asteron Life and AIA Australia. Business Support Services/BDM Team Award was for Macquarie Life. Finalists were Zurich and BT Financial Group.

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
The market share consolidation of Australia's four biggest wholesale insurers (TAL, AIA Australia, CommInsure and Metlife) is offset by declining profits in the long-term, according to Rice Warner's Wholesale Risk Insurance Report. The "big four" group ...

AIA appoints chief marketing officer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
AIA Australia has appointed a chief marketing officer to lead a team of 41 people across a number of business areas. The life insurer has appointed former GE Capital A&NZ head of marketing and portfolio management Renae Smith to the role. Smith will ...

Insurance inflows up 12.9% in a year

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... experienced the highest annual growth (113.8%) and was the fourth largest group insurer in Australia by premium inflows. AIA Australia was first, with a market share of 26.2% and inflows of $1,400.36 million, followed by TAL Group, which saw inflows ...

AIA signs life insurance deal with RAC

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
AIA Australia has signed a four-year deal with RAC to offer life insurance cover to its 800,000 members. As a part of the agreement, two new life insurance products - RAC Life Protect and RAC Accident Protect - have been created. The products will provide ...

Insurers worried about striking balance between claims and price

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... claims with sustainable premiums for members is the greatest challenge that the sector is facing at the moment, an AIA Australia survey has found. Most superannuation fund and insurance companies' execs and employees who took part in the survey that ...

IOOF embeds insurance panel to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
The IOOF Pursuit platform has launched a panel of retail insurers that advisers can choose from when looking for tailored offerings for their clients. AIA Australia's Priority Protection, TAL's Accelerated Protection and Zurich's Wealth ...

Strong rise in risk market inflows

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... insurance mandate movements and pricing increases. TAL's performance saw it take the top spot for market share from AIA Australia. The former now has 26% of the market versus 24.4% from AIA. Inflows into the Lump Sum sub-market grew by 7.2% with most ...

Advisers use more insurers, but main provider still key: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... most-used provider. The top five insurance providers by number of primary planner relationships are: OnePath, AMP, AIA Australia, BT Life and TAL. "The top five insurance providers now account for 66% of primary planner relationships, up from 62% last ...