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Insurance platforms highly preferred: report

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... around 80 per cent of advisers are writing some of their risk business via investment platforms while the average life insurance premium per adviser climbed a significant 32 per cent this year. "Advisers are optimistic about growth in the next twelve ...

OnePath launches OneCare on super platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... platforms. "It's a very tax effective and online efficient mechanisms so it is plugged right into the front end of our life insurance business and online underwriting, cache management program. We have linked that all together onto a wrap platform," ...

Tower posts strong growth in direct and life ins

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
Specialist life insurance group Tower Australia has reported a 24 per cent profit growth this year to $92.3 million, buoyed by strong performance in its group and direct insurance channels. Tower's retail life business underwent significant changes ...

Tower unveils iQuote app

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Tower has launched the Accelerated iQuote life insurance app for the iPhone and iPad - giving advisers the opportunity to roll out instant life insurance quotes on the go. Brett Clark, chief executive of TOWER Australia Retail Life, said Accelerated ...

Longevity products in early stages

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... longevity risk," said Julian Carpenter, MetLife's head of direct insurance distribution. An aging population means that life insurance and the rate of payouts will probably spike as many of the baby boomers and older generations begin to retire. Yet ...

Towers Watson looks to non-life insurance

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010

Telstra Super raises insurance cover

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... second this year after offering a free increase 'death cover' and is part of its focus on expanding the suite of life insurance and disability benefits available to members. In July, the fund allowed members to have their externally-held Death or Death ...

Plan for Life offloads LifeRisk Online

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... Insurance Premium comparison and features research tool. LifeRisk Online provides actual life quotes from Australian life insurance providers on a single webpage, using providers own quotation systems to provide quotation comparison reports.

Faster and easier insurance: Asteron

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... properly disclosed their medical history, we don't see the need for a mandatory PMARs from a doctor when applying for life insurance. This is at odds with the industry standard, which says that at a certain level of cover - regardless of the disclosure ...

Tower improves Accelerated Protection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... improvements including full cover for Severe (Type 2) Diabetes in the critical illness protection component, and five to life insurance. Others, such as business expense protection and improved medical limits, have also received tweaks and enhancements. ...