About Asteron Life

About Asteron Life

Asteron Life has been a specialist life insurance company for more than 185 years, aiming to help people protect what’s most dear to them. It’s a founding principle that’s been at the heart of everything we’ve done since our very beginning – from the first life insurance policy we wrote (which happened to be Australia’s first) in 1833. Since then we have come a long way.

Today we are a proud member of the TAL Daiichi Life Australia Pty Limited group of companies (TAL).

Who is TAL?

TAL is one of Australia's leading life insurance specialists.  For more than 150 years, TAL has been protecting people, Together with our partners, today TAL protect more than 4.5 million Australians.

In 2025/2026, TAL paid $4.7 billion in claims to 57,000 Australians and their families.1

TAL is part of the Daiichi Life Group, one of the world’s largest insurance groups.




Disclaimer: 1 Claims statistics based on total claims paid under TAL Life Limited insurance products (including funeral insurance) between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. Figures are approximate and have been rounded for presentation purposes. 

Useful information

Asteron Life™ is committed to providing customers with long term financial security. We provide life insurance products including Income Protection Covers, Trauma Cover, Total & Permanent Disablement (TPD) Cover, Life Cover and Business Expenses Cover.

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ASTERON LIFE™ INSURANCE
TAL Life Limited ABN 70 050 109 450 AFSL 237848 (TAL Life) is the issuer of Asteron Life™ insurance products. TAL Life is proud to have adopted the Life Insurance Code of Practice (the Code) and to have played a leading role in its creation. The Code is the life insurance industry’s commitment to mandatory customer service standards and it’s designed to protect you. You can read the Code of Practice or find out more about it on the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) website.

‘Asteron Life’ and the Asteron Life device are registered trademarks of TAL Services Limited ABN 60 076 105 130 (TAL Services). TAL Services and TAL Life are part of the TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia Pty Limited ABN 97 150 070 483 group of companies (TAL). The different entities of the TAL group of companies are not responsible for, or liable in respect of, products and services provided by the other.

SUPERANNUATION
Asteron Life superannuation products are issued by LGIAsuper Trustee ABN 94 085 088 484 AFSL 230511 as trustee for LGIAsuper ABN 23 053 121 564 RSE R1000160, trading as Brighter Super (Brighter Super). Insurance and/or administration services are provided to Brighter Super by TAL Life. Brighter Super is not part of the TAL Group of companies and uses the Asteron Life brand under licence from TAL. The different entities of the Brighter Super Group and the TAL Group of companies do not guarantee, are not responsible for, or liable in respect of, products and services provided by the other.