LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

New survey data suggests life insurance industry executives fear the Life Insurance Framework will act as a disincentive to university graduates considering becoming life...

Superannuation

The financial services regulators have been urged to closely scrutinise the financial relationships which exist between life insurers and superannuation fund trustees....

Policy & Regulation

The voluntary approach to industry self-regulation in the life insurance industry is not working and needs compulsion....

Life/Risk

TAL has offered refunds totalling $900,000 to 1,200 funeral insurance customers after reporting to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that it failed to ...

People & Products

MetLife has appointed Casey Sugden and Charlé Howard to key positions in its retail sales team, as it prepares for the launch of its retail life insurance offering....

People & Products

ANZ Wealth has introduced new initiatives to its OnePath solution in a bid to adjust as the life insurance sector faces challenges....

Life/Risk

Suncorp Group has confirmed its continuing consideration of options for its life insurance business, including possible partnerships or sale....

Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that it wants life insurers to have the right to unilaterally amend policies provided it does no...

Life/Risk

The penalties applied to ClearView yesterday are proof of a wider issue of aggressive sales tactics within the insurance industry, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers....

Life/Risk

New survey data has confirmed that the online sales of life/risk insurance have been increasing exponentially – up 108 per cent over the past five years....

Life/Risk

AIA has urged the Government to consider legislative change that would allow life insurance companies to provide early rehabilitation and medical expenses....

Policy & Regulation

Money Management has confirmed that a number of the major life insurers received letters for the Royal Commission into alleged misconduct in Australia’s banking superannu...

Life/Risk

Integrity Group has acquired QBE Life in a transaction valued at $21.7 million with a rebrand to Integrity Life....

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has argued the life insurance industry does not deserve to be subject to an extension of the Unfair Contracts legislation....

Life/Risk

New research has confirmed that clients highly value expert help when it comes to making life/risk claims....

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