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CALI takes on Life Code

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... Life Code, including the industry's first guidelines on family and domestic violence, as well as new protections in the genetics moratorium.

FSC adds to Life Insurance Code of Practice

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... Practice, including the industry's first guidelines on family and domestic violence, as well as new protections in the genetics moratorium. The new guidelines set out 11 areas that each life insurer's policy might cover and were developed with consumer ...

CEFC invests in Macquarie cattle station fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... Paraway will trial and showcase new technologies and practices to cut emissions, including altered herd management and genetics selection, changes to feed additive and farm practices, vegetation management and enhanced emissions measurement. Operating ...

Ideas give insight to opportunity: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... emanate from, including: Telecommunications and sensors Polymers and materials Agriculture and plant science Oncology Genetics

Survey says no to subsidising life insurance for genetically at-risk Aussies

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... customers," he said. "We believe the policy serves to balance the interests of Australian consumers with the interests of the genetics research community and the sustainability of the life insurance industry." The survey found only a small minority of ...

FSC revamps life insurer code

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... asks for life insurers to better explain funeral insurance to buyers of such cover. It also includes a moratorium on genetics testing to make sure people can get up to $500,000 of life cover without having to disclose an adverse genetic test result ...

FSC proposes genetics and insurance council

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
The Financial Services Council is proposing to establish a Genetics and Insurance Advisory Council in an effort to engage in a booming field of clinical research and genetics testing. Chief executive Sally Loane announced the initiative at this morning's ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
Increased affordability of genetic testing and rising public interest in ancestral lineage and health could threaten Australia's life insurance industry, according to the Actuaries Institute. The latest paper from the industry body suggests that even ...

Insurers: beware the double-edged sword of genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... consequences. First, she said, it means that the crucial research she and others are undertaking to understand the role of genetics in disease is impeded by consumers who don't want that information used against them. And beyond that, it can in some ...

Philanthropic trust awards $2m biomedical research grants

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... combined capital today stands at $52 million. The Ramaciotti Awards have provided grants in the fields of molecular biology, genetics and immunology.
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