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TAL, AIA dominate group life market

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2023
... market, boasting a 40.4% market share, insuring 3.9 million lives with annual premiums totalling $830 million. The sum insured under TAL policies is $843 billion. AIA boasts a 29.5% market share, providing life insurance to 2.35 million policyholders ...

Jones releases Your Future, Your Super review outcomes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... reduced the likelihood that employees are stapled to underperforming MySuper products. It is important that members are insured appropriately, and the government will continue to work with stakeholders and Treasury to ensure that members get the best ...

AustralianSuper to decrease premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... nation's largest superannuation fund will soon see the cost of their death and TPD cover drop. About 97% of AustralianSuper's insured members will receive a premium reduction across death, total and permanent disability, and some income protection policies ...

CareSuper changes TPD definition, extends cover

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
... from April 1, the TPD definition will change and be split into two categories based on age and employment status. If the insured member was employed or self-employed within 16 months before the disablement date and below 65 years old, they fall under ...

US agencies act to prevent crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, Fed chair Jerome Powell and Federal Deposit Insurance chair Martin Gruenberg announced all insured depositors in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank will be made whole and that the cost of doing so won't be borne by ...

Optimum Pensions urges super trustees to insure mortality risk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... and mitigate mortality risk to meet Retirement Income Covenant objectives. Optimum Pensions' ' The difference between insured and uninsured retirement products ' whitepaper said trustees must be proactive in considering the potential deficiencies and ...

Stapling's consequences must be addressed: Cbus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... think about insurance - or super for that matter," the submission reads. "People are often shocked to discover they aren't insured or are unlikely to be insured in the case of an incident because of the work they do, but the stapling model fails to even ...

QAR could see 12% increase in insured Aussies

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
According to research commissioned by the Financial Services Council (FSC), the introduction of a scalable advice model for life insurance would see more than a million Australians have the life insurance cover they need. Research by NMG Consulting ...

Fed seeks feedback on rules to resolve large bank failures

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2022
... Organisations, it was noted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) typically employs a strategy of selling failed insured depository institutions to another depository institution. "This has been the course of action which was least-costly ...

NGS Super increases death, TPD premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022
... death and TPD will increase for most members from November 9. A 30-year-old member with a sum life/terminal illness sum insured of $570,000 will see their premiums increase from $2.45 a week to $2.58 a week. Meanwhile, the same member with a $170,000 ...