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Challenger's $300m profit and new product

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... significant gap. CarePlus will combine the benefits of a lifetime annuity, providing regular income for aged care costs, with life risk insurance providing estate planning certainty. Benari said over the past 12 months there had been a sea-change in ...

Zurich expands life risk team

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Zurich has appointed four business development managers to its life risk team. Amy Aleksic and Matt McDonnell join the New South Wales team, having both formerly held other senior positions at Zurich. Commenting on their appointments, Zurich Life and ...

Pay rises better at non-aligned firms

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... year. There is no mention in the survey as to how advice firms will fund pay rises, especially in light of changes to life risk commissions. Two thirds of employers were looking at maintaining employee remuneration at current levels, down from 71% in ...

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 ...

AFA, FPA yet to commit to FSC life risk agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Both the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have refused to comment on whether a final consensus has been reached on the way forward for risk advice reforms. This follows the report in Financial ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... joins from Stream Live in the UK. Zurich beefs up strategic accounts team - Kevin Canning will lead Zurich's retail life risk strategic accounts team as national strategic account manager, and Nathan Taggart has been promoted to the role of strategic ...

Zurich beefs up strategic accounts team

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Zurich Financial Services Australia has made two appointments to its retail life risk strategic accounts team, adding weight to the team dedicated to managing key relationships with dealer group partners. Kevin Canning will lead the team as national ...

FPA proposes risk commission cap

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... payments to be capped at four times ongoing payments." Rantall said the association wants sustainable change in the life risk sector through higher professional standards and by improving the public perception of the life risk advice service offering. ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... agents who engage in this practice - which, he argued, "blights the entire sector". To lift professional standards of life risk advice, Rowe supported adopting the recommendations made in the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial ...

AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life (PFL) recognised Australia's top insurers and life risk products at a black tie event in Sydney last night. TAL received the overall Platinum Award and the Trauma award, and was a finalist ...