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CommInsure expands income protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... and has proved to be compelling to the advisers." CommInsure's received this year's Income Protection prize in the Life Company of the Year Awards held by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life. "We identify income protection as ...

TAL wins Life Company of the Year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
TAL has been named the Plan For Life (PFL)/Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) 2012 Life Company of the Year for the second year in a row. As well as winning the overall Platinum Award, TAL also took away the Term/TPD Product Award and was a finalist ...

TAL crowned life company of the year

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
TAL has been named Life Company of the Year in CoreData's Annual Risk Report. The insurance giant scored highly on CoreData's three most important attributes - having a strong customer focus, competitive cover definitions and the ease of doing business ...

APRA tweaks insurance in super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... for superannuation members by forcing funds to withdraw from current contracts to find alternative cover through a Life company. "Our objective in developing the standard has always been to ensure trustees understand the risks associated with different ...

Challenger attributes 20% profit growth to annuity/life

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... retail annuity sales growth and 10% for net retail book growth, with upwards of $440 million in cash earnings for the Life company.

Life readies for new cap increases

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... regulatory capital could be as high as $125 million for three years. Challenger CEO Brian Benari said that Challenger Life Company's excess capital above the regulatory minimum stood at $813 million at 30 June 2012. The companies share price rose 7.1% ...

TAL big winner in AFA annual awards

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
TAL has taken out the Association of Financial Advisers / Plan for Life's 2011 Life Company of the Year Award. Announced in an awards ceremony yesterday, TAL beat finalists CommInsure and AXA for the overall product and service category, with Brett ...

Call for new generation annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... ease these pressures. "The old generation annuities are lifetime annuity products where you give all your money to a life company and they would allocate your income for the rest of your life with no ability to withdraw capital or flexibility. While ...

Retail annuity sales boost Challenger results

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... quarter thanks to $2.7 billion of fixed income and mortgage mandates managed by the aligned team on behalf of the Life Company.

Challenger investment head lands Omgeo chair role

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... is responsible for investment operations teams, supporting both the firm's boutique fund managers as well as the Life Company of Challenger. "I'm very excited about the opportunity to work closely with my peers in order to drive efficiency improvements ...