TAL secures global innovation award
25 September 2017
TAL has won an SMA Innovation in Action Award for its online platform TAL CoverBuilder, which lets consumers build their own life insurance policies…
Life Insurance
MetLife introduces digital claims tracker
25 September 2017
MetLife Australia has unveiled a digital claims tracker, enabling members to manage and follow their claims more easily…
AustralianSuper drops default cover for under-25s
18 September 2017
AustralianSuper will stop providing default life cover for people aged under 25 who sign up with the fund…
BT earmarks $12 million for customers hit by exclusion
18 September 2017
BT Financial Group will make $12 million of “goodwill payments” to 103 customers who were denied claims because of exclusion clauses around pre-existing conditions…
ISWG suggests more transparency on premium adjustment
18 September 2017
The Insurance in Superannuation Working Group has proposed ways to improve transparency around premium adjustment mechanisms…
Adviser guilty over false education documents
18 September 2017
Victorian financial adviser Michael Davie has been placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond without a conviction for submitting false or misleading statements to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission…
TAL educates advisers on cancer
18 September 2017
TAL has introduced an education course to increase financial advisers’ understanding of cancer conditions and help them give clients the best possible support…
AMP hails case managers’ motivational approach
18 September 2017
Motivational interview techniques have produced a 34% increase in customer re-engagement with treatment, AMP says…
AFA names top award finalists
18 September 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers and Zurich have announced the finalists for this year’s adviser of the year and practice of the year awards…
Income protection ‘drags on industry’
11 September 2017
The Australian life insurance sector continues to face headwinds from the loss-making income protection class and reputational risk, according to S&P Global Ratings…
Advisers still failing clients, says Kell
11 September 2017
A review has identified “potentially large numbers of advisers who may be providing life insurance advice to clients that is not in their best interests”, according to Australian Securities and Investments Commission Deputy Chairman Peter Kell…
Lawyers want stricter rules for life within super
11 September 2017
Life cover within superannuation needs standard definitions and other tougher rules to protect policyholders, the Australian Lawyers Association (ALA) says in a submission to the Productivity Commission…
Infocus buys financial advice group Announcer
11 September 2017
Wealth management group Infocus has bought advice business Announcer, strengthening an expanding national footprint…
ClearView poaches AIA underwriting manager
11 September 2017
ClearView has appointed Warren Page as Chief Underwriter…
AFA reveals award finalists
11 September 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers has named the finalists for its female excellence and rising star awards…
ClearView, Zurich win Canstar value awards
04 September 2017
Zurich and ClearView have won Canstar’s “outstanding value life insurance” annual awards…
Australian Unity wealth arm lifts revenue
04 September 2017
Australian Unity’s wealth division, which includes life insurance and superannuation, increased revenue by 16.4% to $143.3 million in the year to June 30…
MBS promotes advisers to partners
04 September 2017
MBS Insurance financial advisers Chris MacKenzie and Brent McCullough have been promoted to partners…
Mortgage Choice planners deliver profit
04 September 2017
Mortgage Choice’s financial planning arm made a gross profit of $2.2 million in the year to June 30, up 26% on the previous year…
AFA announces education award finalists
04 September 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers and Asteron Life have announced the finalists for this year’s excellence in education prize…