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Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... from a survey of 814 Australians from October to November 2014 and covers life, total permanent disability, income protection and trauma insurance. Key findings include that while nearly 60% of Australians hold life insurance, it is typically (62.7%) ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... Consulting actuaries Melville Jessup Weaver (MJW) have been selected to investigate conflicts of interest in life and income protection insurance advice and make subsequent recommendations. According to New Zealand's FSC chief executive Peter Neilson ...

Rice Warner highlights $1.8trn insurance gap

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Australia report. The report is based on levels of life insurance, total and permanent disability (TPD) and income protection as at June 30, 2014. The "gap" is determined by comparing the estimated amount of cover needed based on key consumer characteristics ...

AIA renews commitment with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... the top three claims in the life insurance industry, estimated to cost around $160 million dollars a year in income protection and disability claims. "Occupational rehabilitation has been a huge focus for us as a business, and we've conducted significant ...

AMP wealth management grows AUM

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... in API was primarily driven by a 0.7% fall in individual lump sum insurance and a 1.1% decrease in individual income protection.

AustralianSuper narrows income protection definition

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
AustralanSuper has made changes to its insurance, including cutting the cost of death cover and some income protection cover and changing definitions that apply to income protection. Starting May 30, members who want to claim income protection will ...

Life cover shifting to younger, lower-income households

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... executive Jim Minto believes this is due to the GFC and how it influenced younger Australians' perceptions of income protection. "One factor that may be relevant to the higher index scores among younger people is that these younger people entered the ...

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 ...