MEDIA RELEASES
PRODUCT UPDATES
OCTOBER 2018 The 5th Annual Strategic Insight - Direct Life Insurance Awards 2018 was held on Thursday 18th October 2018 at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art and included music, lively debate on social media with Rob Carlton and Justin Hamilton, three-course dinner, networking and Awards presentation.
OCTOBER 2018 Life Insurance companies have implemented programs designed to impact beneficially on the health and wellness of customers. It’s a mutually beneficial outcome for policy holders and for Life companies that follow a customer-centric approach. Strategic Insight has developed a methodology to compare “Health and Wellness” initiatives. The pinnacle of this research is the Strategic Insight - Life Insurance Health & Wellness Awards!
MARCH 2018 All the results of the Life Company of the Year Awards, hosted by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) supported by Strategic Insight, were announced on 15th March 2018. The Awards are based on underlying independent Risk Benchmarking research by Strategic Insight. Winners announced.
MARCH 2018 The Life Insurance Individual Risk Market (Retail) is going through some major changes. Strategic Insight has reviewed how the Australian Life Insurance market has evolved over the last 10 years, and where it's going over the next 10 years.
DUE APRIL 2018 New Life Insurance Quarterly Review will focus on short term trends over the last 1-3 years. It will include commentary and supporting data tables for the overall market and full company reviews for three major Life Insurance companies each issue.
MARKET INTEL
The Royal Commission into the finance sector has come to a close, with Commissioner Haynes and his team having two months to prepare the final report for February 2019.
BT policy waiver extended for Protection Plans
TAL partners with NIB for health insurance
FASEA recognition of prior learning update
CBA possible privacy breach investigation
Financial Circle AFS licence cancelled
AMP replaces CEO
Zurich mixes up leadership team
MetLife expands retail team
AFA Consumer Choice Awards
FPA Adviser and Practice of the Year Awards
New Markets Disciplinary Panel members
New FASEA guidelines have changed from their original incarnation, after significant consultation with industry.
NOVEMBER 2018 Survey Results of Australian Life Insurance company attitudes, towards the possible future use of predictive genetic information for Life Insurance.