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MLC announces free insurance upgrades

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... number of critical conditions. All of the enhancements will be rolled out to customers automatically with no increase in premiums. Further, for an additional premium MLC has added an Extra Benefits Option which gives members the option to buy back their ...

MapInfo plots the market's future

... senior strategic planner. For example, the software reduced FFB's manual errors, cut the chances of charging the wrong premiums and automatically calculate FFB's profitability and catastrophe risk. With banks, MapInfo can help plot where ATMs should ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... severely disabled sector, meaning people can work up to ten hours a week and still receive full cover. "We have lowered premiums around the white collar market in particular, so someone in their 40's earning around $150,000 a year, with a benefit of ...

Home equity needs to be part of retirement strategy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... equity can offer insurance against outliving super, bridge the retirement savings gap and be used to fund health insurance premiums into advanced age. Managing director, Chris Martin, said the paper was issued to get government and business thinking ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... fund trustees arguing that scale is a panacea, as far as insurance is concerned it has very little impact on pricing premiums, according to a Rainmaker report. Rainmaker's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the 2006 Group Insurance ...

DeAM chases alpha in fixed income

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... DeAM head of fixed income and deputy chief investment officer of DeAM Australia, Bill Bovingdon, said if credit risk premiums improve in the future the ability to use long/short strategies will give them an edge over typical long only corporate bond ...

Praemium to access UK's wealthiest through Lloyd's

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... are some of the UK's 800 wealthiest individuals," he said. Naoumidis said Argenta manages Lloyd's members' anticipated premiums, providing research for members as to which insurance underwriting syndicate they should include in their risk portfolios. ...

Costs of multiple super too hard to address: max Super

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... modelling carried out by max Super, a 30 year old who had four super funds could save $540 per annum in fees and insurance premiums by consolidating their accounts. This could add up to an extra $60,000 in retirement. "The task of sorting out your super ...

Life insurance industry no more

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
Insurance companies received $35.8 billion in premiums in 2005, but despite a surging market this is still down 2 per cent for the year. Figures just released by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) show an industry under continued ...

ASIC serves up life to insurance rep

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
... offering financial services after repeated and deliberate dishonest behaviour, including spending client's insurance premiums on himself. Terence Howell, from Victoria, has received a permanent ban after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...