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Aussies to rely on govt when insurance falls short: survey

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Government will provide financial support to families if a member dies prematurely - one of the misconceptions driving underinsurance. New research from Lifebroker shows consumer naivety is the biggest hurdle facing the insurance industry. For instance ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... agreed with the FPA that the fee for service model may not be practical for risk products and could provoke further underinsurance. "AFA members don't sell insurance - our members provide advice. Clients who need quality advice and information need to ...

Underinsurance to hit crisis point

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... to new research - but how that impacts their finances can depend on their insurance cover. The Lifewise/ NATSEM Underinsurance Report was completed last month by the National Center for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra. ...

IFSA and Deloitte launch Future Leaders award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... young people working in the financial services sector today faced the fallout of the GFC, working through issues of underinsurance, and how to deal with the huge savings gap issue that they and their children will have to pay for, if society does not ...

Prevention better than the cure: Asteron

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... owns Asteron), said the wellbeing program is Part One of a three-part phase to help tackle the nation's chronic underinsurance problem. He said the initiative is a win-win situation over the long term as it will cut the cost of insurance (premiums) for ...

Asset Super pumps up insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... increases to members' insurance, and boosting the sum insured to each unit of standard cover in a bid to tackle underinsurance. The $1.1 billion industry fund will increase each unit of standard cover by 2.5 per cent for the same weekly cost. Automatic ...

Aviva provides automatic insurance in super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... Andrew Barker, general manager of wealth management products at Aviva, said the firm is addressing the nation's underinsurance issue through this strategy. "We recently saw the strength and value of providing automatic life insurance through superannuation ...

MLC wins life insurer of the year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... insight," the judges said in the awards booklet. "Judges were also impressed with MLC's efforts to lower the level of underinsurance in Australian small businesses." NAB, which owns MLC, bought Aviva Australia's Navigator business in June this year which ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... Browne said that CommInsure hopes to use better insurance processing technologies to address the country's chronic underinsurance. The group is a member of the LifeWise campaign, an industry initiative to better educate the public about how to access ...

GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... said. "Our involvement in Lifewise, a public awareness campaign to help address Australia's concerning levels of underinsurance, is a prime example." The survey was conducted by Newspoll in May this year and included over 700 people aged between 18 and ...