{"id":56300,"date":"2021-06-22T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=56300"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:33:54","slug":"life-companies-news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2021\/06\/22\/life-companies-news-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"News in Brief &#8211; Life Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zurich.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zurich<\/a> has confirmed the extension of its sponsorship of the Melbourne Football Club for another two years.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the insurer says it has has been Co-Principal Partner of Melbourne Football Club since 2018 and the sponsorship arrangement broadened in 2020 when Zurich also became Co-Principal Partner of the club\u2019s AFLW team.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Zurich Life &amp; Investments, <strong>Justin Delaney<\/strong> says the company is thrilled to extend its partnership with Melbourne Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2018, we\u2019ve had the opportunity to experience the club\u2019s fantastic culture, strong values and passion first-hand. It\u2019s exciting to see this reflected in their recent on-field performance,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AIA Launches Age Calculator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a new health and wellbeing age calculator unveiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aia.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIA<\/a> has found that some age groups have an average health age of up to nine years older than their chronological age.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the insurer says that the AIA Vitality Age Calculator, launched by AIA Australia and its health and wellness program AIA Vitality, asks participants a range of questions based on their demographics, as well as their key health and wellbeing habits and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>It says the calculator takes into consideration exercise habits, diet, smoking status, alcohol consumption and mental wellbeing; to then produce an average \u201chealth and wellbeing\u201d age, which compares against the user\u2019s chronological age.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer says that using national data, AIA Vitality has generated an average health age profile of the nation which shows that females are faring better than their male counterparts when it comes to their average health age.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing how the generations are ageing, Gen X (40-54 years) was the worst performing, with a health age that is up to nine years older than their chronological age.<\/p>\n<p>Millennials (18-39 years) were the best performing group; however, their health age is still up to three years older than their actual age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiavitalityage.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to use the free AIA Vitality Age Calculator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich has confirmed the extension of its sponsorship of the Melbourne Football Club for another two years. A statement from the insurer says it has has been Co-Principal Partner of Melbourne Football Club since 2018 and the sponsorship arrangement broadened in 2020 when Zurich also became Co-Principal Partner of the club\u2019s AFLW team. CEO of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":56303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56300","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}