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Accelerate to improve tele-underwriting

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Tower Australia is looking to upgrade its Accelerate offering in 2009 by fine-tuning its tele-underwriting service to churn out decisions in less than three days. According to Brett Yardley, head of offer strategy at Tower, development projects for ...

Telstra Super members gain rebate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... receive a rebate on their group insurance premiums after lower than expected claim levels with the fund's insurer, TOWER Australia over the past three years. Telstra Super's deal with TOWER Australia means the super fund receives a partial rebate on ...

Premium and business growth up: TOWER

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
TOWER Australia continues to grow its insurance business posting growth in its in-force premium and new business revenues during the financial year. The insurer's inforce premiums, representing premiums on all policies that have not expired or been ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... holds its annual general meeting in Melbourne. Other annual general meetings include those of Woolworths Ltd, Tower Australia Group Ltd, Australian Worldwide Exploration Ltd, Centro Retail Group, Becker Group Ltd, Prime Media Group Ltd, Centennial Coal ...

Tower upgrades Accelerate and TPP

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
Refined work definitions, broadened medical terms and technological upgrades - TOWER Australia is pumping up its Accelerate and Tower Protection Product to make life insurance more accessible for independent financial advisers and their clients. Both ...

Tower appoints BDM

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
TOWER Australia has appointed Suzie Brown as business development manager, platform risk within its Group Risk Division. In this newly-created position, Brown will provide specialist personal insurance and distribution support to Tower's wholesale insurance ...

Skandia adds online group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... also provides email alerts on the progress of each application. The online group insurance system is provided by TOWER Australia and is available to Skandia platform users after a successful three-week trial. "For many Australians, putting life insurance ...

Catholic Super enhances insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... total and permanent disability (TPD) cover at no extra cost after the fund upgraded its insurance service with TOWER Australia. The negotiated insurance service means members get a 43 boost in the value of each unit of basic death cover only and, separately ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... on proposed buyback of up to $1 billion on securities and sale of stakes in Copenhagen and Brussels airports. Tower Australia Group Ltd holds an extraordinary general meeting in Sydney to vote on acquisition by Dai-ichi of 9.8 per cent stake in Tower. ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
TOWER Australia ramps up its market share in the direct-to-market life insurance sector after it acquired InsuranceLine, one of the largest direct distributor of life insurance products in the country. TOWER Australia bought InsuranceLine for $136 million ...