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Australians are unprepared for retirement: Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2023
... Australians are ill-prepared for retirement, lacking control in the retirement planning process. Fidelity's New Life Old Life report showed that a third of older Australians who planned their retirement did so earlier than anticipated, mainly due to ...

Pre-retirees want, need financial advice: Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023
... financial advice, according to a retirement planning study by Fidelity International. Fidelity's New Life Old Life report shows that 80% of pre-retirees currently receive advice, have received advice or would consider receiving financial advice. ...

AIA income protection premiums jump

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
Premiums for retail income protection policies with insurer AIA have climbed substantially over the last two years. One AIA Priority Protection policy sighted by Financial Standard had a 27% increase from 2018 to 2019 and then a 32% increase from 2019 ...

ASIC moves to ban direct life cold calling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... consumer credit insurance and its scathing 2018 report of direct life insurance. As part of its comments on the direct life report, ASIC said it intended to restrict outbound sales of life and funeral insurance in an effort to protect consumers. ASIC ...

Swiss Re to manage Freedom remediation

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... been able to recover from the cessation of product sales in September 2018 following the release of the ASIC Direct Life Report. "However, during this period, we have continued to administer the policies efficiently and respond to our customers' requests ...

MLC offers insurance rollover to external funds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... the industry fund sector such as AIA Australia, TAL Life, OnePath, CommInsure and Hannover Re. In fact, a Plan for Life report released on October 20 showed that MLC's share of the total life risk market (which, it should be noted, included both direct ...

NAB sells insurance business to Nippon Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... customers while improving wealth returns for shareholders," NAB Group chief executive Andrew Thorburn said. Plan for Life report of life insurance premium inflows and sales for the year to June 2015 shows that MLC had 12.1% market share of premium, 1% ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
AFA chief executive Brad Fox raised concerns over the methodology of Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) report on life insurance advice that was released last week. He told the media that there were questions over the methology ...

Mandates and pricing boost MetLife, TAL group inflows

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... increase in overall group risk premium inflows during the year ended March 2014, according to the latest Plan For Life report. The spike in inflows resulted in MetLife escalating from fifth to fourth largest group insurer in Australia, ahead of NAB / ...

Premium increases boost life risk inflows 11.5%

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... for the year ended December 2013, with MetLife, TAL and BT/ Westpac registering the highest growth rates, a Plan For Life report showed. Total group premium inflows were $4,549 million in December 2013, 16.5% more than the previous year. MetLife increased ...
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