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One of the companies adversely reference in the Royal Commission, Freedom Insurance Group, has entered a trading halt on the Australian Securities Exchange pending an ann...
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The Royal Commission has recommended additional scrutiny for related party engagements that provide group life insurance....
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MetLife is again testing the market to determine just how well superannuation fund members understand insurance inside superannuation....
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Group insurers appear to have moved beyond the volatility which challenged the sector four years’ ago with premiums hitting a plateau....
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Just over 60 per cent of Australians are against subsidising life insurance premiums for people who are at higher risk of future illness based on adverse genetic test res...
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A new survey has confirmed what most life/risk advisers already know, that clients dislike insurers which bury them in paperwork and inflict sizeable premium increases....
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APRA figures have shown an 11.5 per cent year-on-year rise in the Australian life insurance industry’s net policy revenue to $17.9 billion in the September 2018 quarter....
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The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) life/risk data points to continuing challenges on the disability income front....
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AMP Limited has pointed to an Australian Securities Exchange decision as vindicating the nature of its insurance sale transaction with Resolution Life....
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Within two months of the Banking Royal Commission’s insurance hearings decimating Freedom Insurance, its chief executive, Craig Orton, has announced he will step down for...
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As the insurers scramble to navigate increasing mental health concerns, the Australian Psychological Society has called on them to “urgently” address discrimination again...
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Life insurance companies are now under a legal obligation to provide consistent data on claims and disputes to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Aust...
From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...
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No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...