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Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Mums and dads have increasingly chosen to invest their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
MetLife Insurance will partner Steadfast, the largest network of general insurance brokers in Australasia, to extend MetLife's group life cover to Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded ...

BT Financial Group posts 21% profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... in the period and funds under advice (FUA) were up 12%. The number of retail customers in its flagship Super for Life product were also up 24% on the same time last year with FUM increasing 45% Net flows into Advance Asset Management are also up 20% ...

Banks' super products set to be next industry battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Doyle told Financial Standard. Westpac's full year results showed that the number of customers for the BT Super for Life product rose 26%, with sales at almost 1,600 products per week. BT launched the Super for Life product five years ago and was granted ...

Reporting season reveals insurance black spots

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
A spike in lapse rates and an increasing number of people claiming total and permanent disability (TPD) may lead to an overhaul of products and a surge in premiums some senior industry professionals think. The current reporting season reveals that many ...

CommInsure enhances adviser flexibility of life product

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
CommInsure clients will be able to bundle insurance inside and outside superannuation, a feature that offers greater flexibility for advisers who may have clients that are cautious of their cash flow and want to pay for premiums via superannuation. ...

Zurich enters netwealth platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
Platform provider netwealth has added Zurich's insurance options to its LifeWrap facility in a partnership that will be effective on October 2013. "The addition and integration of Zurich life products into our super and investment suite provides our ...

Direct insurance sales grow on consumer confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... by many industry superannuation funds, prices are still significantly lower than those for the equivalent direct life product. Comparisons with adviser sold products can be misleading as adviser products include allowances for the cost of advice, Rice ...

Clive Levinthal moves from Clearview to Experien

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Clive Levinthal has stepped down from his role at Clearview to become chief executive of Experien Insurance Services. Levinthal was head of wealth and life insurance products and underwriting at Clearview Wealth for nearly three years. Prior to that ...

MetLife launches retirement product

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... longevity-risk," said MetLife Australia boss Marc Lieberman. MetLife's Group Retirement Plan is a guaranteed income-for-life product which provides protection against market risk and longevity risk, and is guaranteed directly by MetLife insurance limited ...