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Despite some improvements in risk product profits, group lump sum and group disability income insurance made losses over the year to September. ...

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Life/Risk

Disability income product clients are choosing to hang on to existing policies at a higher rate than previously, according to DEXX&R....

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Features

The life insurance industry’s losses have stemmed mostly from unsustainable income protection products, Jassmyn Goh writes, but will the new products help end bad habits?...

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Life/Risk

While investment market performance boosted the industry’s financial performance to $1 billion in FY21, individual disability income insurance continued to report losses....

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Life/Risk

New business premiums for individual disability income insurance will drop 15% due to the prudential regulator’s product intervention measures, according to DEXX&R projec...

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Life/Risk

While individual disability income insurance products recorded a loss of $0.3 billion over the year to end March, 2021, this was a $1.1 billion improvement on last year’s...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has used its 2020 Year in Review to point to the profitability struggles of the life insurance industry....

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Life/Risk

From 1 October life insurance companies will be subject to upfront capital penalties until the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is assured they have taken adequ...

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