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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 ...

CFS upgrades FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... binding death nominations across both platforms and advisers can still access two of Australia's leading retail insurers, CommInsure and Asteron Life, which permit ongoing commission payments. "These enhancements will not only improve adviser efficiency ...

CommInsure improves coverage for RBF members

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
CommInsure has improved the insurance offering for members of the Tasmania-based Retirement Benefit Fund (RBF) CommInsure has made changes to existing death, total permanent disability (TPD) and income protection products for members of RBF's defined ...

Major reshuffle in insurance league tables

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... and it holds 15.3% of the market share with an annual growth of 6.2% and total risk premium inflows of $1.7 billion. CommInsure also was able to hold its third position in the last two years with its market share being 13.3% in 2012 at an annual growth ...

CommInsure expands income protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
CommInsure has come up with a new product that takes income protection one step further, paying totally and permanently disabled clients a 100% of their income. While traditionally insurance companies only pay 75% of income in these cases, CommeInsure ...

TAL wins Life Company of the Year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... Product Award categories, TAL received the Term Life/TPD Award, OnePath received theTrauma/Critical Illness Award and CommInsure received the Income Protection Award. The Risk Product Innovation Award was given to MLC for its Risk first Rapid service ...

Clive Levinthal moves from Clearview to Experien

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... and life insurance products and underwriting at Clearview Wealth for nearly three years. Prior to that he worked for CommInsure for 11 years, reaching the position of general manager. Experien is an insurance advisory firm specialising in the medical ...

CBA wealth division posts strong rise in profits

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... growth in the wealth division, which includes Colonial First State, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and CommInsure, represents a 3% rise in over the six-month period and a 10% rise year-on-year. The wealth arm benefited from strong market ...