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MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... doubled its group risk premium inflows and group insurance market share in 2013, Plan For Life research found. The life insurer's group risk premium inflows jumped by 110% and went from $222.28 million in the year ended December 2012 to $466.83 in the ...

APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Group insurance risk management will be top of the agenda in a number of thematic reviews to be carried out by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), according to the regulator's general manager Greg Brunner. Speaking at the Australian ...

APRA issues warning on group risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Insurance regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a warning that while the overall life insurance is in reasonable financial shape, sustained pressure on the group risk sector is becoming a strategic threat that insurers ...

AIA adds Priority Protection range to three platforms

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... partnerships with wealth management platforms over the past two years, in the process becoming the biggest group life insurer by market share in Australia. AIA Australia Limited is an independent life insurance specialist and one of the country's leading ...

TAL's profits take a beating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
Life insurer TAL's profits have fallen by almost 60% since last year, according to second quarter figures released by TAL's Japanese parent company Dai-ichi Life. TAL's profit for the first six months of the Japanese financial year were $29 million ...

TAL launches 'world first' group insurance technology

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
Life insurer TAL has developed a new web-based technology for its group insurance business, enabling it to deal more directly with those holding life policies through superannuation. The technology was developed with UniSuper, to coincide with the commencement ...

TPD insurance prices up 10%

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance prices have gone up 10% in the last year, but the insurance market is still under pressure from increasing claim rates and failure to adapt products to social trends. A Rice Warner Wholesale Insurance Market ...

MetLife poised to enter DLA market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
Life insurer MetLife will launch a deferred lifetime annuity into the Australian market if the current legislative and other impediments are removed. Speaking in a panel discussion hosted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

TOWER announces $70 million special dividend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... life insurance business in May this year. TOWER sold the majority of its life insurance to business to fellow Kiwi life insurer Fidelity Life Assurance for $189m. Chief Executive David Hancock said TOWER eventually intends to return a total of $114.5 ...

Life insurers sponsor mental illness awareness day

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013