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Asteron Life rewards healthy lifestyles

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... offers healthy members discounts on shopping, entertainment and travel purchases, and discounts on eligible insurance premiums. TAL Health Sense: Fit for Life provides an automatic discount of 7.5% for clients who fit within a specific BMI range and ...

Coles sheds life insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... possible driving factor lies in research conducted by Rainmaker Information in December 2014, showing that the average premiums for Coles Life Insurance - including a 20% Fly Buys discount - cost more than double as much as the average group insurance ...

Super insurance maintains active pricing: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... analysis includes a summary of the rate and coverage movements by using the proxy of average cover per dollar of weekly premiums for a 40-year-old white collar worker. On average across all insurance types - death, TPD and income protection - the average ...

Industry model costing good advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... particularly when all advisers have already had to bear a raft of costs, including increased professional indemnity insurance premiums and costs associated with upgrading fee disclosure statements and incorporating opt-in arrangements." Any further increase ...

Not our job to protect big insurers: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... relationship between the insurer and the insurer," he said. Speaking specifically about peer-to-peer life insurance, where premiums are pooled in a mutual structure and overseen by an administrator, Summerhayes argued this represented a "fundamental ...

BTFG announces giant Panorama leap

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... billion FUA; 19% of market share and ranked number one; $4bn in deposits Life insurance - $973 million of life in-force premiums; about 10% market share for in-force premiums General insurance - $503 million gross written premiums Lenders mortgage insurance ...

QIC calls out unnecessary risk fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... this knowledge as part of an active investment strategy. The paper also looks at misconceptions surrounding bond risk premiums, which include their nuances and behaviour, and the potential models for turning risk into reward.

Former BT executive to head advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... minimalist service offer, to one of Australia's premier non-institutionally owned firms. In that time the firm's funds and premiums advised on grew dramatically, as did the numbers of advisers it services and the range of support services it provides," ...

Super industry accepts group insurance needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... trustees and insurers. In its first discussion paper the ISWG specifically looks at account balance erosion due to insurance premiums. It examines how to address the issue of members paying for cover they don't need through having multiple super accounts. ...

Fox warns against direct life insurance again

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... determines you had health issues back when you purchased the policy, or even in the years before, they may only refund the premiums and not pay out. We think that is unconscionable," Fox said.