INSURANCE

Superannuation

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

People & Products

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

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...

People & Products

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

Features

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

Editorial

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

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....

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...

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....

Life/Risk

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

Life/Risk

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

People & Products

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

Features

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

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....

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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