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Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... from a member's super account. "As from 1 January 2009,the method used to deduct premiums to cover the cost of any Life Insurance cover that a member may own will change to become account based," said Intrust Super. However as the cover is now account ...

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... Bravura signed a $5.8 million agreement with one of Vietnam's largest life insurers, Bao Viet Life to provide its life insurance administration package, TalisLife to the Asian firm. TalisLife allows flexible administration of a range of traditional and ...

ING Aus hires former Tower senior exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
ING Australia has recruited Gavin Pearce, previously the chief executive of the Non-Core Australian Investment arm of Tower, as its new executive director of Life Risk. Pearce replaces Helen Troup, who was promoted to chief executive officer of ING ...

Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
REST Superannuation has revolutionised life insurance in super by introducing a "life cycle" approach to its death cover - breaking away from the traditional fixed cost or "$1 a week" insurance model. Almost one million active members of the $13 billion ...

New leaders at BT and Asgard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... head the dealer groups and licensee select, including Magnitude and Securitor. Phil Hay has been appointed head of life insurance, Brendan Tobin, head of general insurance, Charles Holland, head of group insurance and Peter Morgan, head of lenders mortgage ...

IAG ups Malaysian stake

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... has increased its interest in Malaysian joint venture AmAssurance by nearly 15 per cent but is pulling out of the life insurance part of the business. IAG announced on 1 December that it had pumped up its stake in AmAssurance from 30 to 49 per cent ...

BT upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... product disclosure statement (PDS) for insurance on the Wrap platform in May. Phil Hay, BT Financial Group head of life insurance, said financial advisers must ensure their clients are appropriately covered. "Typically where a client has accumulated ...

Life insurance too complicated: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
The life insurance industry is missing a significant segment of the Australian market after a new survey found two in five people think insurance is far too complicated and hard to understand. ING Australia's life insurance research 'She'll be right ...

Premium and business growth up: TOWER

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... per cent rise in sales volumes in-line with demand for higher value products. "In tougher times for consumers, life insurance earnings have a natural resiliency with consumers becoming more aware of the need for life risk protection. It has been a good ...

Tower upgrades Accelerate and TPP

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... and technological upgrades - TOWER Australia is pumping up its Accelerate and Tower Protection Product to make life insurance more accessible for independent financial advisers and their clients. Both the TPP and Accelerate ranges have had their features ...