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AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... TAL's Critical Illness Premier Plan. Finalists were OnePath's Trauma Premier Plan and AMP's Trauma Optimum Plan. Income Protection winner was OnePath's Income Secure Professional Plan. Finalists were MLC's Income Protection Platinum Plan, BT's Income ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... Quadrant. We see this aggregation trend increasing in coming years," he said. Prices for death, death and TPD and income protection products have risen in response to falling profit margins by 15%, 26% and 19% respectively on average across the market. ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... initial focus will be on offering firms with as few as 12 employees Steadfast-MetLife corporate life insurance, income protection and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover. "Steadfast is the leading broker of risk products to SMEs and partnering ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... 13 industry super funds relating to death claims due to suicide, and total and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection (IP) claims due to mental illness. SuperFriend used the results to create a claims experience benchmark against which super ...

IOOF embeds insurance panel to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... available on the panel. These offerings include life insurance, temporal and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection. "Advisers and their clients will benefit from a flexible retail insurance option, longer benefit periods, higher lump sums ...

Insurance through super saves $403 million

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... total death benefit sums insured, 88% of overall total and permanent disablement (TPD) sums insured and 59% of income protection monthly benefits. "Underinsurance is a real problem for individuals and for governments, which absorb the cost of underinsurance ...

AIA Australia re-enters direct insurance market

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... 2012 among Bendigo Bank customers was really low. A total of 56% did not have life cover and 69% did not have income protection. "By building a solution that removes some of the barriers to taking out life cover we believe that this is the ideal starting ...

BT Life targets SMEs with insurance product

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
BT has launched an insurance solution that gives income protection to small businesses owners and key personnel. The BT Key Person Income protects the revenue of small businesses if a key person experiences an injury or illness and cannot work. BT national ...

Defence Bank unveils pension product

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... from term deposits to a growth option, as well as having access to life, total and permanent disability and income protection insurance. " The establishment of Defence Bank Super follows the successful launch and consistent growth of the Defence Bank's ...

NGS Super lifts premiums for older members

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... cover, and they can dial it down." As well as improved death benefits, it also provides for a longer period of income protection - a maximum of five years, as opposed the current two years. According to John Pedersen, NGS Super's product manager, this ...