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Rice Warner recruits NAB executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... superannuation consulting team. Bringing more than 30 years' experience across superannuation, retirement and group insurance, Jenkins is well versed in the areas of actuarial valuations, defined benefit management, default superannuation, successor ...

Is risk advice at risk?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... purchased through an adviser. About 25% were purchased directly from the insurer over the phone, followed by 18.5% via group insurance and 10.8% were purchased online. Similarly, NobleOak found 43.6% of respondents to its 2017 life insurance buying behaviour ...

TAL strengthens group life business development team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
TAL has promoted a member of its group insurance team to a business development leadership role. Lisa Larkin is now national manager of strategic business development, responsible for overseeing all new business activity for the group insurance team. ...

Group insurance dominates life insurance channels: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... insurance policies were purchased mainly over the telephone (24.7%). This was closely followed by the employer or group insurance channel (23.9%). In the 2017 life insurance buying behaviour study by NobleOak, almost half (43.6%) of 1000 respondents ...

Topdocs enhances platform with extended partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
Topdocs has integrated new functionality into its company registration platform by extending its partnership with a provider of financial compliance software. Under the enhanced partnership with BGL, Topdocs users can register new companies and have ...

MetLife awards $11bn custody mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... market grew 2.4% to $16.2 billion in the year to September, latest statistics from Strategic Insight show. The group insurance segment however, recorded minimal growth, up 1.8% year-on-year to $6.3 billion, with MetLife (14.1%), TAL (10.6%) and AIA (7.1%) ...

Phone leads life insurance sales: Roy Morgan

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... Single Source survey rang the company directly to buy life insurance; this was closely followed by the employer or group insurance channel (23.9%.) In the last five years however, policies purchased over the phone dropped from 26% or 89,000, while policies ...

Industry fund cuts life premiums, renews insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner said: "We have an ongoing commitment to our members to ensure that the group insurance cover provided through MTAA Super is appropriate and affordable for their needs and as their needs change." The super fund ...

TAL forms medical advisory board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... Clinical Psychologists fellow George Haralambous. Latest figures from Strategic Insight show TAL reported strong group insurance inflows in the 12 months to September after winning significant superannuation fund insurance mandates, together with MetLife ...

Life insurance inflows stable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... market grew 2.4% to $16.2 billion in the year to September, latest statistics from Strategic Insight show. The group insurance segment however, recorded minimal growth, up 1.8% year-on-year to $6.3 billion, with MetLife (14.1%), TAL (10.6%) and AIA (7.1%) ...