LIFE/RISK

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Bank backed providers Colonial and MLC continue to lead the new risk business race, but Prefsure - the subsidiary of South African insurance giant Capital Alliance Holdin...

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The new choice of superannuation fund regime will need to be handled carefully due to the risk of employees losing valuable benefits if they switch funds, delegates at th...

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Almost half of Australians believe life insurance is a “waste of money” according to a new Commonwealth Bank survey that found less than one in three adults have a person...

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Australians are carrying a risk of uninsurance of more than 75 per cent, with women at greatest risk of not being able to meet financial obligations in the case of death ...

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Australia has been identified as having the largest income protection gap (39 per cent) of several developed countries according to findings in a new global mortality pro...

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Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman David Knott has been recruited by the Insurance Council of Australia to assess public submissions on the ...

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The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...

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The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has permanently banned a former insurance agent after they pleaded guilty to 20 counts of obtaining money by deception...

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Zurich Financial Services Australia has played down Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and Australian Securities and Investments Commission scrutiny of some histo...

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National Australia Bank (NAB) has no plans to outsource its Australian commercial insurance operations despite last week’s deal with AXA in the UK to take over the provis...

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ING Group has reached an agreement with QBE Insurance Group to sell a collection of its Mercantile Mutual general insurance interests and allowing the Holland-based firm ...

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‘Own Occupation’ definitions within TPD policies can be a minefield for advisers and clients. MARC FABRIS reports.ory...

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