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Policy & Regulation
The corporate regulator’s RG 275 will cover all requirements for the implementation the new deferred sales model for add-on insurance, including any exemptions....
Life/Risk
Life insurance and group insurance inside superannuation will be exempt from the Government’s deferred sales model. ...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has announced a collaborative work with members across the financial services industry to design templates to help enable the implementatio...
Life/Risk
Only one-third of surveyed consumers believe an advised life insurance product is better quality than an unadvised product, according to MetLife....
Life/Risk
The proposed stapling of superannuation funds may leave some members ineligible to claim against their own policy after paying premiums if they are injured or ill while w...
Life/Risk
While individual disability income insurance products recorded a loss of $0.3 billion over the year to end March, 2021, this was a $1.1 billion improvement on last year’s...
Life/Risk
The life insurer supports the Government’s plan announced in the Budget to develop a streamlined mechanism to transfer life insurance customers from old legacy products t...
Life/Risk
Despite rumours suggesting otherwise, the Financial Services Council says receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will not invalidate life insurance policies....
Expert Analysis
With claims handling moving into a front-line service, it is vital for the insurance industry to balance digitisation with human empathy, writes Jenny Oliver....
Life/Risk
The Federal Opposition says it is willing to listen and be convinced about life insurance and commissions....
Financial planning
Senator Jane Hume announced the FSC Life Insurance Summit that Treasury will assume control, merging it with the quality of advice review....
Life/Risk
New data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed the value delivered by life/risk advisers while pointing to the continuing problematic n...
Life/Risk
Life insurance claims specialist, Col Fullagar says life insurers appear to be falling back into their bad old ways, including using the Government’s COVID-19 stimulus me...
Financial planning
Synchron has issued an urgent call for life insurers to clarify responses to the new Unfair Contract Terms regime. ...
Superannuation
The corporate regulator has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Statewide Superannuation for its representations on insurance cover. ...
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Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...