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MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... MetLife is Australia's fourth largest group insurer by market share, behind AIA Australia (24.1%), TAL (22.8%) and CommInsure (13.3%). Plan For Life attributed MetLife and NAB / MLC annual growth of group risk premium inflows of 38% "mainly due to super ...

CommInsure appoints head of investment strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Former head of investments at Suncorp has been appointed head of investment strategy at CommInsure. Craig Lamb started his new role in December 2013 and is responsible for developing, implementing and reporting on Commonwealth Bank's insurance business ...

CommInsure nabs exec from Swiss Re

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... Former Swiss Re head of life and health in Australia and New Zealand has been appointed executive general manager at CommInsure, effective April 7, 2014. Helen Troup will be leading CommInsure and joining the wealth management leadership team, Commonwealth ...

Risk Premium inflows up 9.6% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... marginal 0.3%. AIA (39.2%), National Australia / MLC (21.0%) and BT / Westpac (16.4%) achieved the best results while CommInsure (-22.9%), TAL (-9.3%) and St Andrew's (-9.2%) all reported decreases in their Risk Sales year on year. The Life Insurance ...

TAL appoints head of retail claims

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... retail claims. Pugh headed up life insurance claims management for ANZ/OnePath for over three years and previously at Comminsure where for 12 years his responsibilities ran across a number of customer-facing and strategic roles in both claims and underwriting. ...

CommInsure enhances adviser flexibility of life product

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
CommInsure clients will be able to bundle insurance inside and outside superannuation, a feature that offers greater flexibility for advisers who may have clients that are cautious of their cash flow and want to pay for premiums via superannuation. ...

CommInsure 'day one cover' available for CFS

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
CommInsure has introduced 'day one cover' as a service for Colonial First State (CFS) clients who purchase a Total Care Plan Super (TCPS) policy through the Superannuation Payment Method. The payment method uses rollover funds from the clients' CFS ...

Life insurance risk sees downfall in sales

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... Life report shows. Overall sales were down by 4.7% with AIA leading the downfall with losses of 16.2%, followed by CommInsure with 12.2% and TAL losing 11.6%. At the same time, Westpac saw an increase of 38.4% on its sales and OnePath overall sales went ...

Insurers and super funds tackle costs of mental illness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... will be available to all members of the associated funds. The group insurers appear to be happy - AIA Australia, TAL, CommInsure, Hannover Life Re, MLC and Beazley Group have all renewed their contracts with SuperFriend. AIA chief executive Peter Crewe ...

Challenger stages lifetime annuities comeback

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... annuity products totaled just $75 million. Today just two life companies sell the products in Australia: Challenger and CommInsure. The upturn in sales of the product began with the introduction of a new type of lifetime annuity by Challenger Life called ...