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CareSuper ramps up insurance appeal

CARESUPER RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... income protection by meeting underwriting requirements. They may also fix their cover at a dollar value and pay relevant premiums as they get older. While the majority of members are office based, for some years now, CareSuper has had three insurance ...

CFS platforms gain $1.9bn net flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... AustralianSuper dropping its $130 million insurance mandate with the firm offset this flow. As a result, overall in-force premiums reduced by $93 million over the half to $1.1 billion at December last year. Overall, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

AXA pushes into Romanian life market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
AXA has entered the Romanian life insurance market by purchasing Omniasig Life, which represents $18 million in premiums. Launched in 1997, Omniasig Life sells protection products that are sold through a network of 1,400 life agents. The purchase is ...

ING revises OneCare pricing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... reviewed its pricing. The review also resulted in 13 per cent of OneCare policy holders receiving over 10 per cent cut in premiums. Almost 24 per cent of policy holders will receive no change to their insurance premiums and 25 per cent will need to pay ...

Westpac Super improves insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... Meanwhile, premium rates until the age of 65 remain unchanged, although those with additional cover may have their annual premiums increased. MLC is the group insurer of Westpac Staff Super.

TOWER wins key mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... AustralianSuper, TOWER has also been appointed the group insurer of IBM, which has 11,000 members and around $12 million in annual premiums. During the year, the group improved its electronic underwriting service, Accelerated Protection, to better serve ...

Asset Super improves member insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... enhanced its life insurance cover for its members, which includes automatic stage cover improvements and lower fixed cover premiums.The enhancement includes automatic stage cover increases at ages 23 and again at age 28 for eligible members and increased ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... uncorrelated to the broader market indexes." Put simply, an insurance-linked strategies portfolio is a collection of insurance premiums taken against typically "one-in-a-100 years" type of events such as extreme hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural ...

Maritime Super picks AIA for insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... included six separate tenders submissions. He said the fund chose AIA Australia because the insurer provided competitive premiums and because it was the existing insurer for the SRF division. "At first instance, the insured amounts for our members won't ...

MLC FUM falls 19pc, in-force premiums rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... average funds under management (FUM) fell 19 per cent to $74 billion for the year to September while spot annual in-force premiums rose by over 12 per cent to $968 million. The NAB full year results found average FUM dropped from $92 billion to $74 billion. ...