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Australian market skids on Greece

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... eurozone. The concern now was how long the period of uncertainty could last. "It could be a long time. We lurch from one near-death experience to the next," Mr Spooner said. Eurozone nations will hold a summit on Tuesday to discuss the referendum result ...

Australian Defence Force offered super fund choice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... from 1 July 2016. Robert said due to the unique nature of military service it is often difficult for ADF members to obtain death and invalidity cover at a reasonable cost. "To ensure ADF members continue to receive full death and invalidity cover the ...

Life risk sales falling

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Individual death, total permanent disability (TPD) and trauma insurance sales fell by 8% to $280 million in the March quarter, according to research by DEXX&R. DEXX&R's report notes that this time is "traditionally the slowest quarter" for insurance ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... premium income. Specifically, average sum insured per dollar per week has fallen 4.6% over the past 12 months for combined death and total permanent disability (TPD) cover and 5.6% for death-only cover. Combined death/TPD cover for high-risk occupations ...

Don't rage against the machine

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... consumers could complete the whole process on their phones from wherever they wished. But rather than see robo advice as the death knell for traditional financial planning services, Callinan said it should complement existing services. "You can't do ...

Widen access to PLS, say cross-bench senators

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Compound interest is charged on the loan and it is normally repaid if the home is sold or from the person's estate after their death. A statement issued by the Australia Institute policy think tank said, "Extending the PLS would allow all retirees who ...

AustralianSuper narrows income protection definition

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
AustralanSuper has made changes to its insurance, including cutting the cost of death cover and some income protection cover and changing definitions that apply to income protection. Starting May 30, members who want to claim income protection will ...

TAL pays out $1bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... announcement TAL said majority of claims were taken out to help people while still living and that payment in the event of a death now accounts for 47.4% of benefits paid. Cancer features as the top reason for TAL's claims in 2014, accounting for 24.1% ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... a husband and wife who had been separated for a short period of time but not altered their wills, superannuation binding death benefit nominations, or legal title to non-estate assets. The couple owned their home as joint tenants and had binding death ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... HIP merged, as did Tasplan and Quadrant. We see this aggregation trend increasing in coming years," he said. Prices for death, death and TPD and income protection products have risen in response to falling profit margins by 15%, 26% and 19% respectively ...