Money origami 1.

Housed in the TAL building at 363 George Street, Sydney, an origami display, made out of Australian currency, has been put together by Australia’s specialist life insurer, TAL, as part of MoneySmart Week to illustrate that it’s not how much money we have, it’s what we do with it that matters.

The origami display was a great way to engage staff and others about the importance of being money smart.

As a Money Smart Week sponsor, we wanted to do something to help raise awareness of financial literacy as well as awareness of what we are passionate about, financial protection.

Money origami 2.

With the tagline “It’s not what you’ve got , it’s what you do with it” we thought the origami with paper money was a nice tie-in to the overall theme.

TAL’s own Dai-ichi Life Liaison Executive Toru Nagashima dusted off the origami cob-webs and joined our origami artist in doing some paper folding. He produced an exquisite crane (bird). There were many onlookers and the CEO of TAL Direct John Hoyle also joined in the fun.

Click here to read more about the display.

Toru Nagashima

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The alliance will see TAL provide life insurance policies on behalf of NRMA Insurance, with customer policies managed by TAL. 

NRMA Insurance Chief Executive Officer Andy Cornish said that the alliance would help make life insurance more accessible for customers. 

“Underinsurance is a problem in Australia with around 95 per cent of people not holding adequate life insurance. 

“Our alliance with TAL allows us to address this by offering easy to understand and affordable life insurance, as well as greater access as customers can purchase life insurance through all of our existing sales channels. 

“TAL, like NRMA Insurance has a long and proud history of helping Australians protect their assets, and offer security for them and their families.” 

Mr Cornish said the alliance means NRMA Insurance can utilise the expertise of TAL to offer its customers another important insurance product, while also continuing to focus on their core suit of products. 

“This alliance will allow us to continue to grow our multi-product, multi-channel strategy,” Mr Cornish said. 

TAL Direct Chief Executive Officer John Hoyle said NRMA customers will experience a seamless delivery of high quality service. 

“TAL is the market leader in direct life insurance and has a history of successfully partnering with non-life insurance businesses to provide greater access to life insurance for their customers. 

“The alliance is a significant partnership. The products and services we provide for NRMA Insurance will be to the same high standard TAL applies to its own business.

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TAL Managing Director Jim Minto said “We at TAL see increased consumer involvement in life insurance in future and we expect consumers to continue to demand more value and challenge existing industry models. We see this as an inevitable evolution of the life insurance market and we want to apply leading expertise from other countries and markets to help us deliver superior customer value in future and to win consumer support from those people who choose to transact directly”.

Mr Hoyle joins TAL Direct from Chartis Europe, where he was CEO of Chartis Direct for more than five years.

Prior to joining Chartis, Mr Hoyle held senior sales and marketing roles at AXA Sun Life, IMS Health Inc. and Barclays Bank. Mr Hoyle began his career in the advertising and marketing industries.

He has broad international experience, having worked in the UK, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and the Middle East.

Mr Hoyle started at TAL Direct on 16 April 2012 and is based in Sydney.

“We are very pleased to have John Hoyle on board,” said Mr Minto.

“John’s expertise in running direct insurance businesses and direct marketing functions will be of huge importance in helping shape TAL’s direct insurance customer agenda over the coming years.”

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