17 November 2014
A flurry of interest ran around the industry last week when the Australian Financial Review quoted a briefing note from “one of the country’s largest insurers” warning of the dangers of insuring households through unauthorised foreign insurers…
10 November 2014
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s long-awaited final report on privacy invasion includes a detailed plan for a new course of action…
03 November 2014
Consumers tend to pick up the phone to ask about home building insurance to “talk to a human because they want to consult, clarify or verify,” research for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission says…
27 October 2014
Political decisions regarding Queensland sometimes verge on the bizarre, and that’s probably the best way to describe the bomb Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann dropped…
20 October 2014
The insurance industry will be a very different place in 2025 due to innovations such as telematics and the potential intrusion of e-commerce giants such as Google and Amazon, according to…
13 October 2014
Reinsurance rates in Australia and New Zealand may fall further, Aon Benfield Australia and New Zealand CEO Robert De Souza says…
06 October 2014
New business driven by emerging risks such as cyber security could either bypass brokers and leave them sidelined or lead them into greater advisory roles – if they can grasp the opportunities…
29 September 2014
Australian insurers have established a stronger position in the past financial year, but they may now be heading for a storm cloud of competitive challenges…
22 September 2014
Advances in social media are presenting new and challenging risks for insurers – plus some interesting opportunities that should not be underestimated…
15 September 2014
The winds of change are blowing through the reinsurance industry as it gathers for its annual Monte Carlo rendezvous…
08 September 2014
Last year was Australia’s warmest on record, and we could be about to pay the price for it…
01 September 2014
There were some common themes in the profit announcements from Steadfast and Austbrokers last week…
25 August 2014
The growth of the so-called challenger brands is set to accelerate further, according to actuarial consultancy Finity…
18 August 2014
Toxic infant formula and deadly rockmelons are among the high-profile contamination threats sounding alarm bells for companies involved in the increasingly complex…
11 August 2014
The peak profitability game appeared to be up for Australian general insurers last year – before falling reinsurance rates sent it into extra time…
04 August 2014
Recent bushfires and floods have shown not only how little homeowners know about their insurance coverage, but also how uninformed they are about underinsurance…
28 July 2014
They’re the kind of figures that might make Treasurer Joe Hockey sit up and take notice…
21 July 2014
Last week the Australian Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged measures to expand the use of insurance comparison websites, just as the UK Financial Conduct Authority…
14 July 2014
Swiss Re’s latest study of emerging risks paints a grim picture that wouldn’t be out of place in a dystopian novel…
07 July 2014
With Sydney Harbour sparkling and the canapes circulating, the launch of the revised General Insurance Code of Practice last week was never going to be short of glitz and gloss…