{"id":78527,"date":"2025-08-19T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=78527"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:35:23","slug":"individual-risk-lump-sum-sales-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/individual-risk-lump-sum-sales-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Risk Lump Sum Sales Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported individual risk lump sum sales in the 12 months to 31 March rose slightly by 1.3% according to data published by Plan for Life.<\/p>\n<p>It states that although most insurers, including market leaders TAL (5.1%), Zurich (1.7%) and MLC (5.4%) experienced slightly higher annual sales, these were offset by a couple of significant falls recorded by AIA (-11%) and Resolution (-27.9%).<\/p>\n<p>The actuaries and research firm\u2019s latest <em>Market Overview<\/em> also shows NobleOak (32.5%), ClearView (9.8%) and MetLife (8.2%) saw the biggest percentage increases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, annual new premium sales fell 10.6% with in particular TAL (-11.3%), AIA (-45.9%) and Resolution (-27.5%) reporting double digit percentage falls while increases were posted by NobleOak (21.1%) and to a lesser degree both MLC (4.7%) and ClearView (4.6%).<\/p>\n<p>New premium sales increased 11% with TAL (80.9%), MetLife (123.1%) and NobleOak (27.9%) all reporting significantly higher annual sales while those of Zurich (-16.3%), AIA (-43.4%) and Resolution (-26.0%) fell.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, risk market inflows decreased 1.5% over the past year to $18.2bn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78528 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.35.46-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.35.46-am.png 647w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.35.46-am-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.35.46-am-561x420.png 561w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.35.46-am-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.35.46-am-265x198.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78458\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78458\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-11-at-12.33.47-pm.png\" alt=\"Annual risk inflows to 31 March 20225. Data and graphic \/ Plan for Life.\" width=\"627\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-11-at-12.33.47-pm.png 606w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-11-at-12.33.47-pm-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annual risk inflows to 31 March 20225. Data and graphics \/ Plan for Life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported individual risk lump sum sales in the 12 months to 31 March rose slightly by 1.3% according to data published by Plan for Life. It states that although most insurers, including market leaders TAL (5.1%), Zurich (1.7%) and MLC (5.4%) experienced slightly higher annual sales, these were offset by a couple of significant falls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78527","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\/78527","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}