LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

TAL launches initiative for cover to be increased online, without underwriting or paperwork....

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Features

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...

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Features

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. ...

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Features

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...

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Financial planning

Australians should think carefully before cancelling their life insurance policies, the AFA believes.....

Editorial

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...

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Superannuation

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....

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Life/Risk

Life companies differing definitions and medical codes need to be in real customer language, ANZ’s Australia wealth MD believes....

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Life/Risk

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....

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Life/Risk

The life insurance industry needs to innovate to get engagement from millennials, industry experts believe....

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Life/Risk

Life insurers are being urged to publish the data they use to assess risk, by the National Mental Health Commission....

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Financial planning

Key consumer groups have been given a chair at the table of the FSC’s Life Insurance Code of Practice processes....

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Financial planning

The award winners for the Financial Services Council’s fourth annual Life Insurance Awards have been announced....

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Life/Risk

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....

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Financial planning

CommInsure has updated its product offering around heart attack and severe rheumatoid arthritis, following scandals reported in the media this week....

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