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MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
MetLife Insurance doubled its group risk premium inflows and group insurance market share in 2013, Plan For Life research found. The life insurer's group risk premium inflows jumped by 110% and went from $222.28 million in the year ended December 2012 ...

AFA Plan For Life - Life Company Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
The annual AFA / Plan for Life - Life Company Awards was created to award the best life companies of the year in eight different categories. The 9th edition of the event will take place in Sydney on March 12 and recognises the life companies' product ...

Risk Premium inflows up 9.6% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... Premium inflows increased 9.6% year on year in the 12 months to 31 December, according to the latest figures from Plan For Life. AIA Australia led the way with inflows increasing by 20.1% during the year. BT / Westpac saw the second highest inflows ...

SMSFs double use of retail investment managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... of self-managed super funds (SMSF) using retail investment managers has doubled in the last four years, according Plan for Life research. Retail investment managers who have provided a combination of investment and administration services to SMSFs represent ...

AIA Group reports 34% profit growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... with partners and customers to become an important part of their protection strategy," he said. However, the latest Plan For Life insurance report shows that AIA Australia was leading the overall sales decrease in Australia. The insurer's sales were ...

Life insurance risk sees downfall in sales

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Life insurance risk sales declined, while premium inflows increased between March 2012 and March 2013, latest Plan For Life report shows. Overall sales were down by 4.7% with AIA leading the downfall with losses of 16.2%, followed by CommInsure with ...

Challenger stages lifetime annuities comeback

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... dramatic comeback with Challenger targeting sales of $240 million in the 2013 financial year. According to figures from Plan For Life, the industry has not seen demand of that size since 2004, when the top six companies achieved sales of $280 million. ...

Retail managed funds' fortune set to slide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... the March quarter, but this growth is likely to be undone by a poor June quarter, according to figures released by Plan For Life Actuaries & Researchers. Overall retail managed funds grew by $24 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with AMP growing ...

Direct insurance not a competitor of retail: Zurich

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... insurance is cheaper than retail insurance is misleading," Dunkerley said after the release yesterday of research by Plan For Life that suggested that direct insurance is starting to compete for retail market share, with similar and cheaper products. ...

Direct insurance races for advised market share

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... market share, right behind non-aligned dealers, which hold 36.1% market share, according to the early results of a Plan For Life analysis of the direct insurance market in 2013. Aligned dealers and insurance issued by banks fall far behind from the two ...