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HESTA cranks up insurance for members

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... members. The improvements include more cover for those in the 40-55 age group, better and cheaper coverage for income protection, access to death cover or lump sum TPD cover in advance for a terminal illness, a doubling of default death cover and improved ...

ING OneCare minds the insurance gap

... also tapped into the needs of homemakers or part-time workers who want insurance cover but do not qualify for income protection due to their age or occupation. "Living Expense Cover has been a tremendous success for us and has been embraced by the market ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Asteron has ramped up its life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker ...

HESTA boosts insurance for members

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... benefits, effective 1 November, will offer members two extra units of death cover and increase their level of income protection per unit. Under the scheme, a member's new default level of death cover will be up to $160,000 and member income protection ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... more than $1 billion had good death and TPD cover, smaller funds with less than $300 million offered the best income protection premium per cover value even after adjusting for broad risk levels." Keevers said the data debunked the assumption that more ...

CFS adds to sales team

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... offerings, including in the area of life products, the inclusion of total and permanent disability (TPD) inside the income protection stream as well as increasing the number of critical illnesses covered from 41 to 45.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
... found that of 503 people surveyed by market researcher TNS and Rice Walker Actuaries, 69 per cent did not have income protection and only about 25 per cent said that they would be able to maintain their lifestyle for more than six months if they suffered ...

CommInsure rolls out sweeping upgrades - free of charge

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... CommInsure products, including improvements in child cover, personal and business events insurance, TPD and income protection. There were some headline sweeteners. In the area of trauma and TPD insurance, Scott unveiled the Trauma Buyback Benefit, whereby ...

Borrowers in trouble after rate hike

... Financial Planning, expects that more people will start shopping around to switch to a better home loan and consider income protection insurance. "I think the interest rate rise is going to create a churn in the mortgage market, and it is very important ...

IUS appoints group risk manager

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
Group income protection insurance provider IUS has recruited a manager of group risk to its life insurance team. Damon Purkiss, formerly assistant manager institutional business for MetLife, will take on the role, focusing on product development, pricing ...