{"id":81092,"date":"2026-02-17T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=81092"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:54:47","slug":"lump-sum-sales-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/lump-sum-sales-bounce-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Lump Sum Sales Bounce Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported individual risk lump sum sales in the 12 months to 30 September rose by 1.4% according to data published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pflresearch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan for Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lump sum sales increased during the 12-month period by 3.5% overall according to the actuaries and research firm. Leading the sector out of the doldrums was NobleOak, up by 32.5%. Other leaders were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AIA (10.4%)<\/li>\n<li>ClearView (23.2%)<\/li>\n<li>Zurich (3.4%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Resolution Life fell by 11.3%, but it wasn\u2019t alone\u2026Also seeing lower sales were market leader TAL (-1.2%) and Acenda (-3.5%).<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81094 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1218\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm.png 1218w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm-1024x407.png 1024w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm-768x305.png 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm-696x277.png 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm-1068x424.png 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-4.49.01-pm-1057x420.png 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1218px) 100vw, 1218px\" \/>Income Protection\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the same 12 month period, reported individual risk income inflows rose a modest 0.5%. Seeing little change were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TAL (-1.6%)<\/li>\n<li>Zurich (0.7%)<\/li>\n<li>Acenda (1.3%)<\/li>\n<li>AIA (-0.4%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile medium to smaller players NobleOak (21.1%), ClearView (11.3%) and MetLife (28.5%) recorded double digit percentage increases but Resolution Life (-11.4%) continued to wind down its business.<\/p>\n<p>Risk income sales were modestly higher for the period, climbing by 2.9%. While the sales of AIA (12.6%), NobleOak (37.0%), and ClearView (36.6%) were up significantly, those reported by market leader TAL (-9.8%), Acenda (-3.6%) and Resolution Life (-10.5%) were all lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported individual risk lump sum sales in the 12 months to 30 September rose by 1.4% according to data published by Plan for Life. Lump sum sales increased during the 12-month period by 3.5% overall according to the actuaries and research firm. Leading the sector out of the doldrums was NobleOak, up by 32.5%. Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81092","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\/81092","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=81092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}