Investment Magazine

Insurance

Group insurance grapples with change

A combination of greater regulatory requirements, higher data standards and an increasing number of claims in group insurance have caused premiums to rise. ... [more]

Helping hand for mental health

More than half of all Australian employees are now being offered access to mental health assistance through their superannuation schemes. Superfriend, the charitable ... [more]

Rising premiums and tender differentiation

When Media Super switched from ING’s One Path last December to Hanover Insurance Group, it ended a relationship that began in 2008. At ... [more]

The tyranny of smarter data

Adjectives such as titanic, gargantuan and elephantine do not go far enough to describe the task for superannuation funds of meeting the requirements ... [more]

Life insurance for mental
illness sufferers

Writing life insurance for those who suffer mental health issues has long been a vexed area, but insurers and the health sector are ... [more]

Discovering dignity

“How can invalidity claims be managed – applying strict, legalistic definitions – and yet reduce anxiety and defuse anger as such processes provoke?” ... [more]

Will insurance make the
difference in MySuper?

Insurance was emerging as a potential differentiator as funds and financial services providers design their MySuper products, according to speakers at the AIA-Conexus Financial Group Insurance Summit in October. ... [more]

Insurance the next big
issue for trustees

Maintenance of insurance data will become “one of the biggest issues” for trustees in coming years, according to Richard Weatherhead, head of life ... [more]

Insurance risk for
merging funds

While Health Super and First State Super boasted a “cultural and strategic fit” when the two funds first announced a merger at the ... [more]