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Customers’ needs are at the heart of the innovation in life and total and permanent disability insurance that last year’s Women in Financial Services Life Executive of th...

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Financial planning

New sales of individual life risk have reached their lowest value over the last five years, falling 11 per cent from $1.3 billion to $1.1 billion over the 12 months to Ma...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s latest Life Insurance Institution-level statistics publication has managed to paint a picture of the industry as it was u...

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Life/Risk

Super funds could face legal problems once group insurance for inactive accounts is switched off on 1 July, as members who were unaware they were losing their cover may s...

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Financial planning

Almost 500 advisers have attended the first ethics training course run by TAL, as industry players rush to assist planners in meeting the impending Financial Adviser Stan...

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Superannuation

TAL has reasserted its market dominance within the group insurance sector, with LGIAsuper announcing the company would take over its insurance mandate just weeks after Re...

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Life/Risk

TAL has moved to consolidate its retail offering following its acquisition of Suncorp’s Asteron business and will take Asteron Retail off-sale from 1 July and trim staff ...

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People & Products

Many Australians don’t see the benefit in life insurance products until it’s time to make a claim, leading TAL to launch a digital campaign to engage customers with the v...

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Life/Risk

In a sign that all the major life/risk insurers are backing a continuation of commission-based remuneration for advisers beyond the 2021 Life Insurance Framework review, ...

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People & Products

TAL Life has taken out AFA’s Life Company of the Year award for the second year in a row at the Association of Financial Advisers’ Life Company of Year Awards....

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Life/Risk

Australia’s major life/risk insurers have clearly backed the importance of life/risk advisers and signalled their concern at any move to abolish commissions after the 202...

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Life/Risk

TAL Dai-Chi Life Australia has finally finished its acquisition of Suncorp’s Australian life insurance business, announcing this afternoon that the process was complete....

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Awards

In the fifteenth year of the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, MLC Life has maintained its top place on the podium as the Risk Company of the Year for 2...

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Life/Risk

It will be early next year before Suncorp completes the sale of its life insurance business to TAL....

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People & Products

TAL has launched its new digital Adviser Centre platform to better support its adviser partners in their interactions with customers. ...

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