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New data feeds will save advisers time: ANZ

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... committed to expanding our XPLAN platform including integration opportunities, and we're proud to partner with leading insurers like OnePath to deliver new efficiencies to financial advisers." Vigilante said.

Financial dispute authorities combined for 'one-stop-shop'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... University of Melbourne law professor Ian Ramsay. "Australians need to be confident that financial services providers - banks, insurers, superannuation funds - will serve their customer's interests," Budget documents said. "Too often the sector has not ...

APRA and ASIC launch insurance claims pilot

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... basis. Such information will enable consumers to better understand insurance products and more confidently engage with insurers," APRA member Geoff Summerhayes said. "Transparency will assist with accountability and drive improved performance in the ...

Asteron Life rewards healthy lifestyles

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... cover, an additional 5% applies to all lump sum covers. The healthy lifestyle discounts come at a time when other life insurers are making changes to income protection products to include rewards for members who display healthy behaviour. AIA Vitality ...

ClearView slams APL standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... shelf-space fees and shuns the Trowbridge Report's recommendation that APLs should include at least half of all life insurers. "Despite being charged by the government 18 months ago to develop a new APL standard for the delivery of greater product choice ...

FSC launches draft APL standard for risk advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... which will become mandatory for all members. The goal of the FSC's APL standard is to increase competition among life insurers and reduce potential conflicts of interest in life insurance advice. The standard explains further: "Although life AFSL members ...

Not our job to protect big insurers: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... to engage with insurance tech companies. They are unencumbered by the legacy systems that are preventing established insurers from innovating. Unfortunately, life insurance has been an industry that has been particularly slow in changing," Summerhayes ...

Can life and health insurers operate under one roof?

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... benefits for life insurance companies to start offering health insurance products or enter into partnerships with health insurers, according to AIA Australia chief executive Damien Mu. Speaking at the 2017 Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference ...

Insurers lagging on mental health

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... refused coverage for tuberculosis because you had a cold once," he said. While Fear said he understands the need for life insurers to discriminate based on disability, mental or otherwise, this should only be done to the extent that it affects the risk ...

Insurers: beware the double-edged sword of genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
While genome sequencing can provide numerous benefits for life insurance consumers, the fear of Gattaca-style "genetic discrimination" carries its own risks for the industry. Speaking at the 2017 Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference ...