LIFE/RISK

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New research has confirmed what the life insurance already knew that most consumers simply don’t want to pay for life/risk advice – something which places new importance ...

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Australia’s major life/risk insurers have clearly backed the importance of life/risk advisers and signalled their concern at any move to abolish commissions after the 202...

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There’s a new kid on the block in retail insurance, with Integrity Life yesterday launching into the market, with a key selling point being its lack of legacy constraints...

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TAL Dai-Chi Life Australia has finally finished its acquisition of Suncorp’s Australian life insurance business, announcing this afternoon that the process was complete....

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The Federal Government has outlined how it intends on removing the exclusion of insurance claims-handling from the Corporations Act to make it a defined financial service...

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Couples or families relying on two incomes could hit dire financial straits if one income earner was unable to work, but many individuals in that situation aren’t adequat...

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Adelaide accounting and wealth advisory firm, Perks has announced the acquisition of life risk specialists, Simmons Moore....

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Life/risk insurer, ClearView has announced new premium pricing in the face of claims experience and the economic environment....

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Freedom Insurance Group has entered a voluntary suspension on the Australian Securities Exchange, acknowledging it is not positioned to detail its financial position....

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Risk-focused financial planning group, Synchron has signalled its intention to lobby the Government for the retention of life/risk commissions beyond the 2022 Life Insura...

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One of the companies adversely referenced in the Royal Commission, Freedom Insurance Group, has entered a trading halt on the Australian Securities Exchange pending an an...

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A new white paper has argued for the life/risk sector to adopt a new approach to income protection reflecting the reality of economic conditions and earnings....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 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 2 days ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

4 weeks 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”....

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