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BT awarded Life Company of the Year

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... Association of Financial Advisers in Sydney last night. BTFG collected three of 13 awards on offer, also winning the Income Protection Award and Claims Team of the Year. AFA chief executive Brad Fox said the overall award recognises the insurer which ...

Adviser roadshow shines light on modern-day advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... for the nearest exit. For example, words like 'insurance', 'insurances', 'disability', 'needs analysis' and 'income protection' are all familiar and popular terms - but must be banned from all conversations. Instead, replace the same terms with 'protection' ...

TAL Direct business penalised for advertising

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... has been fined by ASIC for false or misleading advertising. Specifically, the advertising suggested that the Income Protection Plus product provided "illness and injury cover up to 85% of income to $10,000 a month" in the case of "Kylie", who had to ...

Zurich restructures retail life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... commences in July 2016. In addition to reducing premium rates by 6% for under-55s, Zurich has also introduced a new income protection product range; these come with a two-year "rate certainty" guarantee, ensuring a period of stable premium rates on new ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... remuneration is commission driven. This means that their remuneration bounces around a bit. So we have put in place an income protection arrangement with our insurer that allows us to average the remuneration for the last three years to try to smooth ...

Sunsuper renews AIA mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... with AIA Australia to 2020. As a result, AIA will continue to provide death, total permanent disablement and income protection insurance to Sunsuper members beyond the original July 2016 deadline. Explaining the decision, Sunsuper chief executive Scott ...

MLC offers insurance rollover to external funds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... annual premium discount, enduring authority, automated annual premium payments and an "up to 20%" discount on income protection premiums. The function is available for MLC Insurance (Super), MLC Protection (Life Super) and MLC Protection (Income Protection ...

Zurich cleans up at Plan For Life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... (Trauma Standalone Award), AIA Australia (Trauma Rider Award), OnePath (Accident Cover Award) and TAL Life (Income Protection Award and Innovation Award). Other winners included Suncorp (Funeral Cover Level Premiums Award and Funeral Cover Stepped Premiums ...

AMP wealth earnings down post-Genesys closure

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... noted that the business had also suffered due to "claims experience losses primarily relating to the retail income protection book." "Volatility in wealth protection experience is to be expected from period to period given the size of AMP's in-force ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... gap in Australia. This "gap" was based on levels of life insurance, total and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection as at June 30, 2014, as compared to the estimated amount of cover needed based on key consumer characteristics - including ...