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ATO approves ING monthly life payouts

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
The ATO has handed down a landmark ruling stating that ING's OneCare customers who have life, TPD and trauma benefits paid as monthly installments can avoid having them assessed as income. Mark Vilo, ING's head of marketing & retail products, life risk ...

Aussies finally get life insurance message: IFSA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
... increased uptake, including greater recognition of 'living benefits', such as income protection, Total and Permanent Disability (TPD), trauma policies and consumer unease over record levels of debt, working with new ease of product purchase and accessibility. ...

Trauma insurance to expand

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... The ageing population and changing morbidity patterns will promote greater need for trauma insurance rather than traditional TPD cover, and unless group insurers respond they will miss out on a big product development opportunity. "People are living ...

Asteron launches Lifeguard range with market-first PDS

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
... to web" PDS. The new range includes cancer cover, a pregnancy premium waiver, premium-free child cover and partial-payment TPD. "Asteron's market-first product innovations are just components of our completely revamped life insurance range. Asteron Lifeguard ...

CGT overshadows Simpler Super benefits: Centric

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... non-dependent, could make it a very tax heavy death benefit," she said. Taxation of group life and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance outside of super was another issue. While such policies, taken out by employers on the employee's behalf ...

AIG improves insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... for term insurance, a new limited term insurance option for those who may have been declined previously and an increase in TPD cover to $3 million. AIG has also added 130 new occupations to its "E" category to allow advisers to broaden their client market. ...

AXA wins Life Insurer of the Year

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... successful afternoon for AXA Australia, also taking out the Trauma Product of the Year Award. AXA was also a finalist in the Term/TPD Product of the Year category, along with TOWER Australia, and in the Income Protection category. ING Australia was the ...

Westscheme stays with TOWER for life

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... an improved benefit scale to all members, broaden eligibility criteria, and offer extended total and permanent disability (TPD) cover." Minto said that the insurance gap in Australia needed to be addressed from multiple angles. "Overall, the life insurance ...

CommInsure ranked first in group risk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... significant being AustralianSuper and its new group life policy. CommInsure designed a new death, total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection insurance package with new features and increased levels of cover which saw AustralianSuper ...

Super SA upgrades to insure those working longer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... upgrades for all members in its Triple S fund, effective immediately. The insurance upgrades include extending the death and TPD cover from 60 to 65 years old and for those members in the closed defined benefit schemes access to this cover. Income protection ...