LIFE/RISK

INDUSTRY NEWS

Tower Australia has revised the commission structures, product definitions, features and ease of gaining coverage across its risk insurance products and yesterday unveile...

INDUSTRY NEWS

By structuring the ownership of personal life insurance policies via superannuation, it may be possible to fund such premiums from pre-tax earnings, says Andrew Lowe....

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Federal Government is accusing both the Federal Opposition Australian Labor Party and the Australian Democrats of creating greater uncertainty in the insurance market...

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has urged the Opposition and minor parties in the Senate to support passage of the Trade Practices (Personal Injury and Death) Bi...

INDUSTRY NEWS

When it comes to claims, the most cases assessed relate to disability income, and as Mike Taylor reports, it is an increasing trend....

INDUSTRY NEWS

Risk advisers will face risks of their own. Col Fullagar outlines how to mitigate those risks....

INDUSTRY NEWS

Financial planners are facing alarming personal liability risks despite having professional indemnity (PI) cover due to an influx of unauthorised foreign insurers accessi...

INDUSTRY NEWS

Macquarie Adviser Services has made changes to its superannuation insurance cover, including the introduction of an upfront commission for death and total and permanent d...

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Australian insurance industry must focus on product manufacture and marketing as too many people are both uninsured and under-insured, according to AXA’s financial pr...

INDUSTRY NEWS

The former chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Alan Cameron has been appointed to head up a Federal Government review of the Insurance Contr...

INDUSTRY NEWS

Discussing risk insurance with clients is becoming a must do, but as Michael Richardson points out, many advisers are new to writing risk insurance and could face problem...

INDUSTRY NEWS

The long term profit outlook for the life insurance market will remain poor for the immediate future as it remains linked to the low performance of equity markets and sad...

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 5 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

3 weeks 3 days ago

A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

2 weeks 2 days ago