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AIA adds to C-suite lineup

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... providing life insurance to 2.35 million policyholders and collecting annual premiums of $606.6 million. The total sum insured under AIA's policies amounts to $495 billion.

AMP names new group insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
... Australia. TAL has a 40.4% market share that insures 3.9 million lives with annual premiums totalling $830 million. The sum insured under TAL policies is $843 billion. It is followed by AIA with a 29.5% market share that covers 2.35 million policyholders. ...

Allianz Retire+ adds 'industry first' feature to AGILE

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... potential age pension eligibility within a single product - an industry first." The second enhancement is the new Spouse Insured option, which allows income for life to continue to be paid to the investor until the later death of the life insured or ...

Treasury mulls reforming use of genetic test results by life insurers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023
... where the total amount of lump sum death cover is greater than $500,000. However, APRA statistics show the average sum of insured individual policies of lump sum death cover - excluding group cover - is about $714,000. A review of the moratorium by Monash ...

Life insurance industry profits double, premiums rise: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
... lapse rates for policies secured through independent financial advisers (IFAs) grew, the overall count of individuals insured has stabilised, following a multi-year decline. "We can see the impact of the decline in the number of IFAs, with a drop in ...

MLC Life unveils retail discounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2023
... between 7% and 10% of cost savings based on a tier for clients with greater amounts of income protection cover. Clients insured for over $250,000 in lump sum cover and/or over $4000 in income protection will be eligible for this discount. Also structured ...

Integrity Life to cease writing new retail policies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
... in-force premiums have skyrocketed from $22.2 million in March 2021 to $140.3 million in June 2023. The number of lives insured by Integrity Life has also more than doubled from 59,000 to 185,000. While the decision was largely influenced by the decline ...

Challenger Life books record annuity sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... The remaining 25%, which are group annuities, will see the super fund issue its own lifetime income stream that will be insured by Challenger. On July 31, Challenger kicked off its defined benefit (DB) de-risking partnership with Aware Super. Challenger ...

Federal Reserve plans upping capital requirements

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... Department of Financial Protection & Innovation and the FDIC was named receiver. The FDIC transferred all deposits-both insured and uninsured-and assets of the former SVB to a newly created, full-service FDIC-operated 'bridge bank' in an action ...

ESSSuper reduces admin fees, renews insurance mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... to one year before the waiting period applies again, and introduction of a criminal activity exclusion under which an insured member will be prohibited from claiming a benefit if they participated in criminal activity or while they're incarcerate ...
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