{"id":47143,"date":"2019-11-14T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T04:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=47143"},"modified":"2019-11-15T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:03:48","slug":"tal-wins-2019-life-company-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2019\/11\/14\/tal-wins-2019-life-company-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"TAL Wins 2019 Life Company of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">TAL has been announced as the overall Platinum Winner in the 2019 Plan For Life\/AFA Life Company of the Year Awards.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47156\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Philip-Kewin-e1573765725464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47156\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Philip-Kewin-e1573765725464-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Philip-Kewin-e1573765725464-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Philip-Kewin-e1573765725464-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Philip-Kewin-e1573765725464-852x1024.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFA CEO,\u00a0Phil Kewin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">This completes a hat-trick for TAL, which also took home top honours in 2017 and 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">AIA Australia, MLC Life Insurance and OnePath Life were named as runners up at the Awards event held today in Sydney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">In presenting the Awards, AFA CEO,\u00a0<strong>Phil Kewin<\/strong> said, &#8220;Today we recognise those companies that have demonstrated an increased focus on improving consumer outcomes in areas where it matters &#8211; value, delivery, efficiency, cost, simplicity and transparency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">He added, \u201cWe congratulate TAL Life on winning the Platinum Award, and all the winners and finalists of individual awards, who continue to deliver exceptional outcomes for advisers and their clients.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Key Award categories included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The Overall AFA Life Company of the Year Awards, offered in conjunction with Plan for Life <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The Client Service Team Awards, offered in conjunction\u00a0with the Beddoes Institute and Riskinfo<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Life Company of the Year Awards<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The overall Awards are based around Plan For Life\u2019s Risk Products Benchmarking services, which benchmarks retail life insurers across five key metrics:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Financial strength<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Market share based on sales and growth over three years<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Product feature strength based on a review of over 90 product features and definitions<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Service quality<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Premium rate comparisons across a wide range of ages and sums assured<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Client Service Team Awards<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The Client Service Team Awards recognise outstanding underwriting, claims and BDM teams. They are based on the annual Beddoes\u2019 Adviser Experience Benchmarking Study annual study, which collates adviser ratings and feedback on their main insurance providers across all key touch-points between an adviser and insurer, including Underwriting, Product, BDMs, Business Support and Claims.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The Award winners and runners-up for 2019 are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-14-at-4.41.42-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-14-at-4.41.42-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1105\" height=\"1190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-14-at-4.41.42-pm.png 1105w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-14-at-4.41.42-pm-279x300.png 279w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-14-at-4.41.42-pm-768x827.png 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-14-at-4.41.42-pm-951x1024.png 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 1105px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47152\" style=\"width: 2933px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/191114-TAL-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47152 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/191114-TAL-2-e1573707668767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2933\" height=\"1653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/191114-TAL-2-e1573707668767.jpg 2933w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/191114-TAL-2-e1573707668767-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/191114-TAL-2-e1573707668767-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/191114-TAL-2-e1573707668767-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2933px) 100vw, 2933px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TAL CEO Brett Clark (holding trophy) is flanked by members of his senior management team, together with AFA President, Marc Bineham (third from left) and AFA CEO Phil Kewin at right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAL has been announced as the overall Platinum Winner in the 2019 Plan For Life\/AFA Life Company of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,48,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-associations","category-company-news","category-conferences-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}