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APRA stresses super client burden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... the insurance market. "The larger industry funds are already generating a form of indigestion within the life insurance industry," he said. "Because of the large scale and limited period of their insurance contracts, we now have an inefficient market ...

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 ...

FPA joins IFSA in mental health initiative

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... other mental illnesses after their representative body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) joined life insurance industry players in signing this year's MOU with the mental health sector. The Memorandum of Understanding has been developed back ...

Macq Life imports underwriting and claims head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... within the company. Phillips began her career as a medical doctor and spent more than 17 years in the life insurance industry working as a medical officer at South African based insurers, Liberty Life and Charter Life. In this role, Phillips will provide ...

Mico receives Industry Excellence Award

... (IFSA) senior policy manager David Mico receives the Industry Excellence Award for his contribution in the life insurance industry. The award was handed to Mico as part of an IFSA Board resolution in a meeting held this month. "During David's stewardship ...

Seven page PDS insurance breakthrough

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... developing the new product class they asked themselves what they would do if they were redesigning the life insurance industry from scratch. For one, they would separate people who needed and wanted personalised advice from those that didn't. Second ...

Stable funds bad defaults: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... (ICI) has called for retirement funds to be invested to achieve growth, and dismissed calls from the US life insurance industry that capital stable funds be allowed as default investment choices in 401(k)s. "Stable value funds emphasise principal protection ...

Green light for Aviva Riskfirst roll-out

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
... signature-free applications. "By enabling signature-free applications we've thrown out the rule book on how the life insurance industry usually operates," Griffiths said. "Bringing life insurance into the 21st century will make it economic for advisers ...

APRA modernises data collection

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... with the industries, which naturally support the idea of improved data collection processes. "Both the life insurance industry and the friendly society industry have changed substantially over the past ten years, but the structure of data collections ...

Awards to recognise the best in life insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... chief executive officer, Richard Klipin, said the awards were conceived to highlight the important work of life insurance industry leaders. "The purpose of these awards is to recognise the life companies' product and service quality levels and the extent ...