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Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... average sum insured per dollar per week has fallen 4.6% over the past 12 months for combined death and total permanent disability (TPD) cover and 5.6% for death-only cover. Combined death/TPD cover for high-risk occupations fell more substantially compared ...

AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... Business Safeguard Forward Underwriting Benefit (FUB) will allow business owners to increase their life, total permanent disability (TPD) and crisis recovery insurance under certain circumstances. These include when owners start a business; increase ...

CommInsure offers alternative to group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... annual renewal rebate of up to 14% from the first policy anniversary." The changes apply to life cover, total permanent disability cover, income care super and accidental death cover.

AIA extends IP insurance to target baby boomers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... illness of a child," AIA Australia's chief marketing officer Tim Tez said. AIA has also changed its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) and Income Protection (IP) benefits to include eligibility for part-time and casual workers, or those engaged only in ...

CommInsure improves coverage for RBF members

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... of the Tasmania-based Retirement Benefit Fund (RBF) CommInsure has made changes to existing death, total permanent disability (TPD) and income protection products for members of RBF's defined contribution scheme, the RBF Tasmanian Accumulation Scheme. ...

MLC revamps insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... which allows customers to get cover as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, clients who bundle their Life, Total Permanent Disability and Critical Illness cover together are now being rewarded with a 20% saving on income protection premiums. "Our new multi ...

Remove insurance from super: Cassidy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... said. A national scheme would offer fairer benefits for the working population with standardisation of Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition and consistent conditions and assessments for occupations and health issues, Cassidy said. "Members would ...

IOOF tweaks platform risk insurance for super

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... superannuation members. IOOF said it had extended the age at which members can apply for new death and total permanent disability (TPD) insurance cover through their superannuation from 65 to 70. It also said existing death and TPD insurance cover now ...

Super fund leaps into life stage insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... fund whose life cycle hits a specific trigger event will be able to access a higher level of death and total permanent disability insurance cover without any medical evidence. Peter Lewis, head of retirement products at Aon, said trigger events included ...

Funds to talk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... including being able to choose components, for example having no death insurance but five units of total permanent disability insurance. REST gets about 80 to 100 claims per month, Sayer said.