Analysis

Make it relevant. That’s the message to life insurers in the wake of the Investment and Financial Services Association inaugural Life Insurance Conference held in Sydney last week…

Beatle George Harrison wrote a song called Here Comes the Sun in which he talked about smiles returning to faces…

And so the shackles have been cast away…

If the withdrawal of Lumley Insurance and CGU rattled the market for privatised builders’ warranty insurance, then the departure of Vero threatens to shake it to its foundations…

Regardless of how it can be achieved, an adequate level of home and contents risk cover at affordable prices is a must-have for Australians…

International regulation is back centre stage…

While the rest of the world concerns itself with new regulatory challenges, in Australia the buzzword is competition…

Management liability lines are feeling the strain after the global downturn precipitated a surge in new claims…

Apart from anything else, Suncorp CEO Patrick Snowball’s market announcement last week should see the retreat of some tanks from his lawn regarding the speculated sale of the…

It’s remarkable how far and how fast a market rumour can travel…

IAG is heading in the right direction after rebuilding from a horror 2007/08 financial year…

Actions speak louder than words. That’s the implicit message to those insurers who continue to talk up rates in the insurance market…

It was with a distinctive mix of military and suburban references that new Suncorp CEO Patrick Snowball last week declared the group’s commitment to its banking operations…

The New Zealand Government is moving quickly to open up its monopoly personal injury insurer, the Accident Compensation Corporation, to competition…

Contrary to popular legend, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority wasn’t found to have been a party to the collapse of HIH in March 2001…

A constant stream of “soft” regulation is preventing insurers from maximising their compliance investment, according to a study by the University of Technology Sydney…

The sharp rise in financial services complaints highlighted by the Financial Ombudsman Service’s 2008/09 review serves to underline the impending crunch in professional indemnity…

The insurance industry in Australia has been caught before in regulatory whirlpools that were intended for its cousins in banking and funds management…

Another damning review of compulsory builders’ warranty insurance has highlighted government dithering over privatised last-resort schemes…

While the insurance industry can take some comfort in its exemption from new federal consumer legislation, it still has to provide a convincing argument that two sets of laws…