16 April 2018
Unless insurers start adjusting their digital tactics, the millions they have spent in recent years to counter insurtechs and other tech challengers may come to nothing, according to Accenture…
09 April 2018
Mark May 8 as a possible D-Day for the beleaguered life insurance industry, which is anxiously waiting for Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2018/19 budget…
26 March 2018
Despite increasing pressure from direct players, brokers can still find plenty of opportunities in the SME market…
19 March 2018
The insurance industry may be one of the most disrupted in the world, but CEOs are not letting the pressure get to them…
12 March 2018
Sorry, but calls for a slowdown in the regulatory reform that’s apparently wearing out the insurance industry are likely to go unheeded for some time…
05 March 2018
The noise surrounding insurtech can make it hard to get a clear understanding of what is actually going on, and what we should be doing about it…
26 February 2018
Sweeping changes to the way companies must manage data breaches may prove the catalyst for business to take up cyber insurance, and offers a fillip for brokers…
19 February 2018
Insurers may have a tough time fighting plans to extend unfair contract terms to the industry, with claim rejections providing an easy target for campaigners for change…
12 February 2018
The Productivity Commission, which serves as a major feeder into Federal Government thinking, isn’t convinced insurance competition is as robust as the industry maintains…
05 February 2018
Doubts about a sustained upturn in the commercial insurance market can be largely cast aside based on the picture painted in this year’s JP Morgan Taylor Fry General Insurance Barometer…
29 January 2018
The Federal Government accepts disaster mitigation is the only sustainable way to reduce premiums in catastrophe-prone northern Australia. That’s the good news coming out of its long-awaited response to the region’s insurance pricing issues…
11 December 2017
Henry Ford observed that “history is bunk”, which may be correct – who are we to argue with dead American billionaires? – but it nevertheless throws up lessons that are as true today as they were long ago…
04 December 2017
It is only three months since a Senate committee handed down its report on the general insurance industry – one among a plethora of recent reviews…
27 November 2017
Convincing governments to increase mitigation spending is tough, but the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience & Safer Communities has upped the ante in its latest report on the benefits of action and costs of inaction…
20 November 2017
The latest KPMG General Insurance Industry Review presents a buoyant picture, with profitability on the rise as rates increase, while the industry has also seen cost benefits from technological change…
13 November 2017
The wide-ranging fifth review of the General Insurance Code of Practice needs to show the industry can meet higher community and regulatory expectations amid an ever-sharper focus on financial sector standards and behaviour…
06 November 2017
The claims process can be tricky at the best of times, but in a hardening market challenges can be exacerbated…
30 October 2017
On the evening of July 7 this year, the worst aviation disaster on record very nearly happened…
23 October 2017
Finity Consulting’s latest “health check” on general insurance adds to an improving prognosis for the industry after years of weak premium growth and subdued investment returns…
16 October 2017
Insurers are not suffering from an innovation deficit, according to the latest Swiss Re Sigma report, which largely debunks the widely held perception of an industry out of step with the new economy’s needs…