Australian Unity has restructured its life insurance operations, including its bond products, and has spun to divisions out into a new company called Australian Unity Inv...
Software and information supplier Investment Data Technologies (IDT) will now offer general insurance research, quotation and electronic policy fulfilment capabilities as...
As Rhonda Virtue writes, it is essential that members are educated about the impact of choice on insurance....
Superannuation insurance premiums accounted for the lion’s share of total life office revenue received during the March quarter 2003, according to the Australian Prudenti...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have hit out at comments by the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) financial services senior policy officer Catherine Wol...
The outlook for the life insurance industry in Australia and New Zealand remains weak due to volatile investment markets and an uncertain industry environment according t...
The chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear, flew to London last week in the hope of clinching a deal to set up the association’s own ...
A wholesale revamp of Australian Casualty and Life’s (AC&L) Protection Plan insurance offering has seen the AXA owned group take out Money Management’s inaugural Risk Awa...
Professional Investment Services (PIS) is moving against broad industry trends to add risk insurance and taxation services within financial planning businesses....
The Federal Government will be pushing to include professional indemnity cover in any legislation the states make on public liability insurance....
NICOLE SZOLLOS finds there is much work to be done in promoting life insurance products to women....
Despite their low profile, insurance bonds can offer some real benefits, according to JENNIFER BROOKHOUSE, with investment and tax advantages....
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...