INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Editorial

Given their access to private and personal information that can be used to predict the likelihood of preventable diseases, insurers have role to play in encouraging healt...

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Life/Risk

Will be responsible for strengthening Macquarie’s personal and business insurance services...

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Financial planning

Will offer reduced premiums for clients who can prove they have improved their health through the program....

Financial planning

Actuarial conference is told that banks must be prepared to accept tougher capital adequacy and improved accounting standards to avoid a repeat of the global financial cr...

Life/Risk

Rise in insurance claims wipes out underwriting surplus; profits down....

Top 100

The top life companies in the Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Awards are devoting more resources to adviser and client education to tap into the surging risk ...

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Life/Risk

Communication with advisers more important than even a year ago....

Life/Risk

Regulatory changes to overcome deficiencies in managed investments would be inappropriate for insurance brokers....

Financial planning

Sustainability is the forgotten innovation in retail life insurance, writes Sean McCormack....

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Life/Risk

MLC named life insurance company of the year at the 2009 Australia and New Zealand insurance industry awards ahead of finalists AMP and CommInsure....

Financial planning

Bipolar disorder – mental illness or physical disorder? COL FULLAGAR considers the implications of this question for insurers....

Financial planning

Increase comes just weeks after it was revealed 30 per cent of homes in the Victorian bushfires were not insured: NIBA....

Financial planning

When it comes to claims, insurers have an onus of proof, and the process requires greater understanding, writes COL FULLAGAR....

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Financial planning

Fixed loans continue to slide....

Financial planning

Concerned about overlapping jurisdictions in insurance industry....

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