AXA general manager of financial protection Michael Rogers has cast some doubt on market speculation that more planners are selling more life insurance....
Regulatory changes to overcome deficiencies in managed investments would be inappropriate for insurance brokers....
ING has upgraded its OneAnswer super offering with the addition of an online insurance tool....
One of the traditional strongholds of financial planners, insurance sales, may be under threat, with the intra-fund advice regime giving superannuation funds the power to...
Failure of high profile companies testing guidelines to the limit; questions as to whether PI insurers will continue to provide insurance to planners....
Life insurance risk market inflows have increased by 16.1 per cent to $7.6 billion for the 12 months to March 2009, according to researcher Plan for Life....
Will generate $315 million to reduce its $800 million debt; secures three-month extension on its loans....
MLC named life insurance company of the year at the 2009 Australia and New Zealand insurance industry awards ahead of finalists AMP and CommInsure....
Australian institutional investors, including AMP, have shown increased interest in insurance-linked securities....
The Insurance Council of Australia has suggested the Government consider the introduction of a compensation fund as an adjunct to PI insurance....
WriteAway to manage new cases through to policy completion within 20 to 30 minutes....
Lump sum protection policies linked to the Aviva platform represented 14.8 per cent of new business for the year ended May 2009, up from just 3 per cent in 2007....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...