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  • Australia faces up to climate insurance affordability crisis

    26 August 2024

    Actuaries Institute finds 15% of homes now under "insurance affordability stress"

  • Suncorp turns tax collector for over A$1bn insurance policy duties and levies

    19 March 2024

    CEO and industry have criticised Australia's policy taxes, for fuelling affordability crisis

  • Actuaries Institute wants to double genetic test policy limits

    31 January 2024
  • Actuaries Institute incoming president warns of "almost invisible" power of AI

    30 January 2024

    David Whittle encourages actuaries to "give the data revolution a conscience"

  • Australia faces home insurance affordability pressure as premiums rise 50%

    14 August 2023

    The Actuaries Institute commissioned research on the issue

  • Australia's disability income insurers must innovate or die

    21 April 2021

    Disability income products with 120% claims ratio face "pretty bleak" fate, warns life firm CEO

  • Australian life insurers arm up on the frontline of climate change

    13 February 2020

    Climate change is not just a worry for property and casualty insurers. In Australia, whose recent natural disasters are widely seen as harbingers of global warming, life and health firms recognise complacency is no option. David Walker reports

  • Extreme weather index launched in Australia

    09 November 2018

    Benchmark is designed with risk management in mind