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CommInsure upgrades underwriting offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
CommInsure is improving its underwriting offer for financial advisers by launching a new service and updating its existing rules. Advisers will now have the option to request a dedicated telephone-interviewing team to collect information from customers ...

MLC Life creates four adviser engagement roles

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... customer experience and retention; Christopher Ong as head of pricing and profitability; and Simon Dent as head of underwriting and new business.

Suncorp appoints non-executive director

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... a non-executive director and chairman of the risk committee at Prudential Corporation Asia, and chairman of Tesco Underwriting. He will replace outgoing non-executive director Geoff Ricketts who retired in September 2016. Current chairman Ziggy Switkowski ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... higher income - 21.5% in March from 19.2% in February - and less anticipating falls in income - 7.0 % from 8.1%. Underwriting this booming confidence is, of course, US President Trump's promised reflationary policies - mainly tax cuts and fiscal spending ...

BTFG announces giant Panorama leap

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... the next steps for BTFG life insurance include investing in the customer experience - including digital quoting and underwriting; a new wellbeing portal; new life-stage based products; a digital interface with medical professionals; and complete integration ...

Life insurance ripe for disruption

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... financial services, it says. Consolidation amongst smaller players, simplified product portfolios, analytically enhanced underwriting, aggressive pricing and token investments into lower cost channels are likely to manifest as short-term responses to ...

BT Financial Group wins Life Company of the Year

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... awards; and TAL was given the Service Quality award. Finally, Zurich won two Client Services Team awards for its underwriting and BDM/business support teams. Outgoing AFA chief executive Brad Fox said: "The AFA/SI Life Company of the Year Awards are ...

MLC Life Insurance upgrades underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
The underwriting process for retail-advised life policies will be accelerated by the introduction of MLC Life Insurance's new tele-underwriting service. Halving the lengthy underwriting process, the new Fast Track service will benefit both financial ...

Fox warns against direct life insurance again

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... insurance directly has not transpired into a better claims experience - a situation that could be avoided with timely underwriting, Fox said. Fox pointed to a recent Roy Morgan survey that highlighted positive customer feedback when accessing direct ...

Synchron vows to end yearly renewables

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... capacity to meet their future needs in the sense that it will have guaranteed renewability, meaning no additional underwriting will be required to continue the policy." Synchron has clarified that the partnership will not result in a new type of insurance ...