{"id":76986,"date":"2025-04-29T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=76986"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:56:13","slug":"2025-risk-new-business-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/2025-risk-new-business-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Risk New Business Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adviserratings.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adviser Ratings<\/a> appears to confirm a resurgence in the levels of life insurance new business being written.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of its full March quarter 2025 data reporting for the retail risk market, the firm has released a summary chart projecting retail life insurance new business sales will reach $340 million in the 2025 calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>This projection is informed on what the firm reports to be a sharp increase in retail life insurance sales for the March 2025 quarter, jumping to $80 million, which represents a 14% increase on sales reported for the March quarter in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The projected rise in risk new business in 2025 &#8230;will continue the upward trend in retail risk new business sales<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The projected rise in risk new business in 2025 of $340 million (which does not include any age-based or CPI increases applicable to inforce policies) will see an 8% year-on-year increase against 2024 and will continue the upward trend in retail risk new business sales, which dropped to a low of $297 million in 2023, according to the researcher&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>Riskinfo will report additional details stemming from Adviser Rating&#8217;s Retail New Business (March 2025 Quarter) data, following its full release shortly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77028\" style=\"width: 827px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77028 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2.png 827w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2-696x468.png 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/250429-Adviser-Ratings-v2-625x420.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infographic chart released by Adviser Ratings ahead of the full release of its 2025 March Quarter data for Australia&#8217;s retail insurance market, revealing the upturn in pure risk new business (no age-based or CPI increases included). The 14% increase referred to in the infographic relates to the $80 million 2025 March quarter result compared to the corresponding quarter in 2024, rather than the projected year-on-year increase estimate for 2025&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest data from Adviser Ratings appears to confirm a resurgence in the levels of life insurance new business being written. Ahead of its full March quarter 2025 data reporting for the retail risk market, the firm has released a summary chart projecting retail life insurance new business sales will reach $340 million in the 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76986","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=76986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}