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Life insurance gap down 33pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... dropping from $1,000 billion in 2005 to $669 billion in June 2010, based on the survival needs of families and dependants after death according to Rice Warner Actuaries. Comparably, the level of life underinsurance is $3,073 billion on an income replacement ...

HESTA forms new relationship with CommInsure

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... offer income protection to age 67, moving away from OnePath. Starting from next year, HESTA members will receive improved death benefits. The super fund said that under the new insurance offer, a 40 year old member will gain a 25% increase in death benefit ...

Super fund leaps into life stage insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... 1, members of the $2 billion fund whose life cycle hits a specific trigger event will be able to access a higher level of death and total permanent disability insurance cover without any medical evidence. Peter Lewis, head of retirement products at Aon ...

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... the financial markets - the rest of the Eurozone especially -- can sleep easy while Greece 'austerity reforms' itself to death. For at the end of the day this is not about Greece. It's not a bail out of Greece but a rescue of everybody else at the expense ...

The seventh week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... slashing by Standard & Poor's of Greece's debt rating - from B to CCC. Like I said in previous commentaries, enough with the "death by a thousand cuts." Just give it a D already - it'll eventually get there anyway. Because each cut sows the seed for ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... yesterday - noting that 50% of Caa1-rated government debts default within 5 years. These credit rating agencies better stop the "death by a thousand cuts" behaviour once and for all and just murder Greece. If you still have Greek bonds in your portfolio ...

MetLife launches credit insurance product

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... with Citibank, launching a credit card account insurance product to protect policyholders in the instance of unemployment, death or injury. CardGuard, available exclusively to Citibank customers, provides a number of features including repayment protection ...

TWUSUPER upgrades member insurance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Transport and logistics industry fund TWUSUPER has strengthened its insurance package for members, offering increased death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) cover. As of May 28, the $2.4 billion fund will implement a raft of changes having ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... plateau." Only days later... a mighty thud heard on equity markets around the world. And on the flipside, remember the "death of capitalism" being peddled at the height of the GFC? Those who blindly accepted this pitch might still be kicking their backsides ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... The negative sentiment and a soft lead from Wall Street overnight overshadowed news of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's death in Pakistan, as investors consider the potential for reprisal attacks. The gold sector was the biggest loser on the local bourse ...