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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 ...

FCA levels insurance field for DIY funds

... MetLife, SMSF members will have access to group rated insurance products including Term Life, Disability and Income Protection. "FCPP is the first to offer SMSF members access to quality insurance products discounted under a "wholesale" group fund method," ...

Five out of six Australians lack income protection: CommInsure

A CommInsure survey released this week found that five out of six Australians have inadequate income protection insurance in the case of illness or injury. Alarmingly, the survey also showed that if the respondents were to lose their income for three ...

NAB bundles home loans with insurance

... "Despite these facts, the majority of Australians have some level of home and contents insurance, but very few have income protection, total and permanent disability or life insurance." Andrew Thorburn, NAB's executive general manager for retail banking ...

Zurich to launch Life Risk Factory

... business by research firm Plan for Life. In the year to June 2005, the market growth rate for in-force business for income protection was 8 per cent versus Zurich's higher rate of over 25 per cent.

STP insurance breakthrough through STS

... instantaneously. The platform has been developed by Australian company Straight Through Solutions (STS). It can handle income protection, serious illness and life insurance cover. STS says the platform reduces applications processing time from weeks ...

CommInsure joins life insurance innovators

... life products, CommInsure has upgraded its products to include total and permanent disability (TPD) inside the income protection stream. Swanson says, "We argue that the [insurance] industry has always struggled to decide between offering TPD, income ...