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TAL continues insurance upgrade

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
TAL, formally Tower Australia, continues to reshape its insurance products, offering new features on its group life products to streamline adviser processes. TAL's group life and group salary continuance product offerings for the corporate market now ...

Tower upgrades quoting systems

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
Tower Australia has upgraded its technology and underwriting processes based on risk adviser feedback, including broader trade income protection terms. Brett Clark, chief executive of Retail Life, Tower, said the insurer spoke to risk advisers for feedback ...

Instos go direct as hedge funds industry moves

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Institutions are seeking direct and customised hedge fund investments in favour of commingled fund of hedge funds, as the alternative asset class attempts to reinvent itself. A new report from State Street, Hedge Funds: Rebuilding on a New Foundation ...

Consultant warns super funds on alternative rush

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
Institutional investors are in danger of allocating too much capital to alternatives, with "genuine assets" thin on the ground and often overpriced, according to investment consultant Chris Condon. A recent study by Towers Watson showed that allocations ...

Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Australian super funds are looking for assets with strong links to CPI inflation as they continue to ramp up their allocation to alternatives, a class that has swelled to US$952 billion among global pension funds. According to a global research study ...

Telstra Super cuts insurance premiums

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... design, reducing the price of income protection, death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover. The fund, insured by TOWER Australia, has cut income protection and death and TPD premiums by up to 40% and 25%, respectively, for eligible Telstra ...

Super funds bidding to stem insurance shortfall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... the real focus around their whole member service experience," said Andrew Boldeman, chief executive officer, Group Life, Tower Australia. "Most industry super funds still have a vast majority of members not understanding the terms of their insurance ...

Praemium V-Wrap platform goes mobile

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... The introduction of this new technology comes just one week after Praemium announced it would partner with life insurer, Tower Australia, to allow Tower to be the sole life insurance product provider on the platform. Tower will pay Praemium an undisclosed ...

Tower, Praemium tackle new frontier

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
Life insurer, Tower Australia, has taken a first step after the proposed FOFA banning of commissions on risk products. The insurance giant has joined with online financial portfolio administrator, Praemium which will give Tower access to its 200 planner ...

TOWER completes share sale

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Life insurer TOWER Australia announced that shares held by the company and its shareholders have now been transferred to TAL Dai-ichi Life Group. TOWER, which will be renamed TAL in November, said in a statement to the ASX that shareholders will be ...