LIFE/RISK

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A key Senate Committee has been told that the Government’s new Design and Distribution Obligations and Product Intervention powers risk putting advisers in conflict with ...

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The finalists have been named in the Money Management/Dexx&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards in a tight race for the honours....

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MetLife has secured the insurance mandate of Tasplan, following a tender process which will see the insurer deliver group life offerings to the fund’s 145,000 members....

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ClearView has told the Royal Commission it has no intention of returning to direct life/risk insurance and will remain focused on the advised market....

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The Royal Commission has been urged to hold the board members of ClearView to account for breaches of directors’ duties relating to the activities of its direct life/risk...

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AMP Limited has sought to rebut claims made during the Royal Commission that it engaged in misconduct in its deduction of superannuation fund members’ insurance premiums ...

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New research has shown that retail insurance cover customers could be “seriously damaging” their wealth through inappropriate indexation of premium costs....

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Freedom Insurance has suspended direct insurance sales with its managing director, Keith Cohen, leaving the business immediately....

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At least four of AMP’s corporate superannuation clients are in the process of reviewing their arrangements in the wake of successive rounds of hearings before the Royal C...

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The Royal Commission has released a policy document which has directly questioned the future of life/risk commissions and raised the issue of banning direct insurance via...

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Life/risk insurers self-reported just 23 breaches of the Financial Services Council’s code of conduct to the Life Code Compliance Committee....

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Life/risk insurers have been placed on notice that the Royal Commission may recommend measures to hold them responsible for psychiatric injury inflicted on clients by cla...

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