LIFE/RISK

INDUSTRY NEWS

Forget any of the troubles caused by HIH on the personal indemnity insurance game. HIH may have gone down, but Nick Bruining still has to fill out the paperwork for his P...

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In two separate and unrelated announcements, the Australian Securities and Invesments Commission (ASIC) has made rulings against two insurance agents....

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Financial advisers are failing in their compliance duties in selling disability insurance, according to the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC)....

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Former Armidale-based insurance broker, John Murray Murnane has pleaded guilty to charges of theft, being an unregistered insurance broker and operating a business while ...

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The insurance world was recently shaken to its core with news from the States that even insurance executives were involved in fraud....

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AM Corporation has pulled the plug on its own life insurance company as a part of one of the biggest revamps in the group’s 25 year history....

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LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....

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Insurance and science are set to collide as genetics moves out of the lab and into the underwriting book. ALAN DOBLE takes a look at the state of play in life insurance a...

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Financial planning groups are lining up to launch their own risk insurance master trusts. ...

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Australian Unity revenues for the last financial year rose 9.2 per cent to $236.5 million, with private health cover being a star performer....

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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has stated it will take a closer look at the area of disability insurance after continued concern by the regulator o...

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NRMA Insurance is looking to aggressively grow its funds management operations with an ac-quisition, according to chief executive Eric Dodd....

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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...

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