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AXA upgrades insurance in super

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... convenient framework of their superannuation, pension or investment accounts," said Stephen Rosengren, head of individual life at AXA Australia. AXA Australia customers can now link their non-super trauma and TPD options to a self managed super fund ...

AIA appoints head of adviser services

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
AIA Australia has appointed former TOWER Australia manager, Pina Sciarrone, as head of adviser services, individual life. Sciarrone previously worked as state sales manager for Victoria/Tasmania at TOWER Australia. Prior to joining TOWER, she worked ...

MetLife Australia names new chief

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... Set up in 2005, the local operations provide group life insurance through superannuation and employee groups and individual life insurance products through affinity partners.

AXA to launch blended premium insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... permanent disablement (TPD) insurance suite to make life insurance more affordable. Stephen Rosengren, head of individual life at AXA Australia, said many of the group's advisers are struggling to retain policyholders around 40 years of age because insurance ...

Tower to upgrade Accelerate platform

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... cases and applications faster on Accelerate to cut down on waiting time for advisers and their clients. Tower's individual life sales enjoyed an upward trajectory this year, with the firm announcing new individual life sales for the six months to March ...

AXA ramps up million-dollar insurance strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... the halfway mark, not only has the firm experienced significant increases in new financial protection business, individual life new business also rose 19 per cent to $32 million. In addition, the daily application rate has doubled to 125 applications ...

TOWER profit down, life business up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... 12 per cent fall in net profit after tax to just over $27 million in the firm's first half results, while new individual life sales continue to increase. Despite the fall in net profit after tax, TOWER Australia's underlying profit rose 13 per cent to ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... by life insurance groups as "APRA believes that it is no longer appropriate to permit a notional valuation of individual life insurance policies." But the most visible aspect of APRA's data expansion is their intention to collect annual performance data ...

AXA upgrades insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... changes to its insurance offer, with financial protection as the key driver of change. According to AXA head of individual life insurance Stephen Rosengren, the latest initiative involves updating the mandatory medical underwriting requirements for life ...

AXA Asia Pac growth mixed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... stood at $1.1 billion, a positive sum albeit lower than the previous year's numbers. On the plus side, Australian individual life new business growth increased 21 percent to $61 million and total financial protection new business gained 31 percent to ...