TAL launches initiative for cover to be increased online, without underwriting or paperwork....
The life/risk sector still offers growth potential to the major insurers but, as Mike Taylor reports, new regulatory and capital requirements have made for a more challen...
From a financial planning perspective, it is arguable that no sector has generated more change over the past three years than the life/risk sector. ...
It has been a little over a year since Jim Minto retired as chief executive of big insurer TAL. It is 12 months during which he has taken the time to reflect on the shape...
Australians should think carefully before cancelling their life insurance policies, the AFA believes.....
ASIC has signalled it will be closely examining the claims-handling of the major life/risk insurers, but Mike Taylor asks whether the regulator is simply the policeman wh...
A roundtable of superannuation industry executives believes super fund members are better off at claims time because of the protections offered by super fund boards....
Life companies differing definitions and medical codes need to be in real customer language, ANZ’s Australia wealth MD believes....
The life insurance industry needs to look at all health and well-being aspects of a person to create better outcomes, ANZ Australia wealth managing director believes....
The life insurance industry needs to innovate to get engagement from millennials, industry experts believe....
Life insurers are being urged to publish the data they use to assess risk, by the National Mental Health Commission....
Key consumer groups have been given a chair at the table of the FSC’s Life Insurance Code of Practice processes....
The award winners for the Financial Services Council’s fourth annual Life Insurance Awards have been announced....
ANZ’s OnePath subsidiary is set to pay $4.5 million in compensation over breaches relating to its life, general insurance, superannuation and funds management activities....
CommInsure has updated its product offering around heart attack and severe rheumatoid arthritis, following scandals reported in the media this week....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....