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Freedom ditches life insurance sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... decided to search for alternative business models after a strategic review headed by Deloitte found new sales of its life products is no longer viable. Further, in the absence of incoming revenue and repaying commissions, the board flagged a potential ...

ClearView results up despite adviser earnings drop

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... also up, by 5% to $26.1 million, owing to a 21% rise in gross premiums to $215.2 million and sales of contemporary life products up 5% to $42.4 million. ClearView characterised its life result as solid, noting the result fell short of underlying NPAT ...

ANZ revamps life insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... customers return to work quicker. Income Secure Essentials and Severity Trauma, which are a part of the OneCare range of life products, will provide greater choice for advisers whose clients are either already under the existing policies or might be ...

Life insurance market flat: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... closures. In 2016, direct business reported about $1.1 billion of individual risk inflows; $562 million came from term life products, followed by $334 million in funeral insurance. In-force direct business, including risk lump sum and income protection ...

Coles sheds life insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... a statement to Financial Standard, Coles confirmed the move, though offered no explanation for discontinuing its life products, other than the decision came "as part of a regular review of our product portfolio". MetLife also confirmed the news, saying ...

Mark Dunsford attacks FSC over life reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... code would not apply to whole-of-life and endowment insurance, general insurance, health insurance or annuities and life products unless any component constitutes a life insurance policy. The draft code is open to feedback until September 9.

Annuity sales growth drive up Challenger 1H16 profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... challenges of our time." These factors resulted in a 12% growth in Challenger Life product sales (annuities and other life products) to $2.1 billion, corresponding to a 12% growth in assets under management to $13 billion. Challenger has been partnering ...

TAL to invest $150 million in adviser support

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... consumers and we believe that an investment of $150 million over five years will provide opportunity to better deliver life products and advice to Australians. "The future may have some challenges but in my opinion, if we all work together the future ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... your super right alongside and have a clear understanding of your wealth position," he said. When the Super for Life products were first formed in 2007, Englund said the price point "was very deliberately chosen and we're very pleased with the solution ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded corporate life products, which will be sold to SME customers alongside Steadfast's existing business insurance products through its network of ...