Archive

  • Australian health insurance sector's Q2 margin hits 12-year low

    18 August 2020

    Sector has provided A$500m of benefits to members during Covid-19, says trade body

  • Australia's life insurers in the emergency room

    12 August 2020

    David Walker reports on the suitability, reputational and distribution crises that are destroying the profitability of the country's life sector

  • Australian regulator eases dividend guidance for insurers

    29 July 2020

    Apra had urged insurers to delay dividend payments earlier this year

  • Australian health insurers lose customers for third year running

    23 July 2020

    Industry body says sector returned over A$500m to customers during the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Profits at Australian insurers nosedive on Covid-19 and natcats

    28 May 2020

    Q1 underwriting losses hits A$991m

  • Coronavirus: insurance regulatory action tracker - UPDATED

    08 April 2020

    The latest worldwide insurance regulatory responses to Covid-19 summarised

  • Apra hits pause on licensing new insurers as Covid-19 toughens conditions

    08 April 2020

    Head of country's largest non-life firm announces retirement

  • Apra urges delay on dividend payments

    07 April 2020

    Australian regulator sets expectations on insurers' capital amid coronavirus

  • Regulators take further actions to ease pressure from coronavirus

    23 March 2020

    From Germany to Australia, watchdogs have rolled back requirements on insurance industry

  • Australian non-life underwriting profits fall 35% on 2019's natcats

    27 February 2020

    Life sector moves into the black as risk products move from net profit to loss