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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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....

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...

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....

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...

Life/Risk

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

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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