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ANZ launches LIF resource

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... ongoing technology and service enhancements. The reforms, due to come into effect on 1 January 2018, will change the way insurers pay commissions on life insurance products; level commissions for example, will change from 32% to 30% (inclusive of GST). ...

BTFG widens life insurance APL

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... product not on the APL has been approved. As above, it is expected the APL will have a minimum of three "formally included" insurers by March 2018. "Ensuring clients have high quality cover that meets their needs has always been the priority," BTFG general ...

VicSuper names new insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... $19 billion superannuation fund's insurance portfolio following a comprehensive tender process involving six potential insurers, which included incumbent AMP. The partnership with AMP commenced in 1994 or National Mutual as it was known then. It demutualised ...

Advice industry compensation bill hits $37m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... banned a total of 35 "bad apples", ASIC's annual report shows. ASIC also reviewed the claims handling practices of 15 life insurers, covering more than 90% of the life insurance market. Its October 2016 report found significant shortcomings in the claims ...

US recommends asset manager stress tests be removed

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... allowing annuities as investment options for employer-sponsored retirement plans; and promoting infrastructure investment by insurers through appropriately calibrated capital requirements. US Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said: "The regulatory ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... Institute said asymmetry of information and the potential for anti-selection creates major tension between the desire for insurers to be inclusive and indiscriminate toward insurance applicants and the sustainability of their business models. Anti-selection ...

New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... established this week. National not-for-profit organisation Insurtech Australia will focus on representing insurtech startups, insurers, reinsurers and brokers and other insurance related disciplines, including health, wellbeing, data and analytics ...

AIA Vitality launches charitable option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... Bank's Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses for $3.8 billion, positioning it to be one of the largest life insurers in Asia Pacific.

TAL maintains life insurance market lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... premiums, said the life insurance industry continued to grow albeit now at a much more modest pace than in the past. All life insurers reported increases in inflows except for CommInsure, which saw risk premiums decline by 11.4% year-on-year to $1.6 ...

Advisers underrated at claim time

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
Financial advisers must recognise they are the key conduit between clients and life insurers; otherwise the experience at claim time could be unfavourable to all parties. Succession Matters insurance and estate planner Mike Sayer said advisers who accept ...