LIFE/RISK

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Clearview’s targeting of particular demographics for its life/risk products has come under fire on the first day of the Royal insurance hearings, in regard to the insurer...

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The Royal Commission has been told that Australia’s 10 major life insurers have paid advisers around $6 billion in commissions over the past five years....

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AMP Limited has admitted to the existence of life/risk churn in its submissions to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Servi...

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The practices which led to ClearView ending its direct life sales and undertaking a $1.5 million remediation process will kick off today’s sixth round of hearings of the ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has placed insurers and superannuation funds on notice to lift their game in the wake of a report which has found the...

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TAL’s agreement with Suncorp to acquire the latter’s Australian life insurance business is binding as of today, subject to regulatory approvals in Australia and Japan and...

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The Financial Services Council has welcomed a regulator’s positive review on the role of the FSC Life Insurance Code of Practice in the sale of direct life insurance, whi...

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An Australian Securities and Investments Commission report has pointed to significant ongoing problems with direct life sales including poor practices and product design....

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TAL, CommInsure, AMP and ClearView have been named to front the next round of hearings of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financia...

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MLC Life has drawn recruits from a range of competitors to help building its group insurance business....

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Facing heavier regulatory scrutiny, new research has suggested that Australia’s major life insurers will likely look to greater use of technology....

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Colonial First State retained CommInsure as its group insurer despite it performing poorly against a number of industry benchmarks but that may change following the sale ...

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