INSURANCE

Superannuation

MetLife Australia has announced a campaign to raise awareness around group insurance within super as many Australians remained unaware they had it....

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People & Products

Bravura Solutions has won a five-year extension to its relationship with Lloyds Banking Group covering the insurance business....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds need to provide new members with an easily understood but detailed explanation of what, precisely, insurance within super is delivering, according to...

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People & Products

AIA Australia has consulted with risk advisers to deliver a new “true level” premium, a new feature within its Priority Protection product....

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Features

John Berrill looks at the changes the ISWG have put forward to shake up the life insurance industry....

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Editorial

If insurers were made to drop underwriting policies at the time of claim could they accept the accompanying commercial pain?...

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Features

The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....

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Features

Why are the Japanese insurers and institutions showing such interest in Australia’s life insurance assets while our major banks are looking to the exits, Mike Taylor asks...

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Life/Risk

The AFA has renewed its call for all life/risk to be underwritten at time of purchase with a scathing assessment of direct insurance and its risks....

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Life/Risk

Australian Unity has posted a 16 per cent increase in profit after tax for the six months to December, 2016....

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Life/Risk

Maurice Blackburn has attacked CommInsure over its claims handling report, saying the types of claims selected for review were selective....

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People & Products

Insurance claims manager and third party administrator, inTrust has appointed Diego Ascani as its new chief investment officer....

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Features

Col Fullagar looks at when an intending insured is able to cease and desist disclosing ‘all sorts of stuff’....

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Life/Risk

MLC Life Insurance has made key retail advised team appointments to help develop longevity solutions and to drive a new direction in underwriting....

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Life/Risk

Insurance advisers would like banking staff to be trained more on their products and more technology to be implemented for efficiency, according to Adviser Ratings....

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