LIFE/RISK

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The Financial Services Council’s Life Insurance Code of Practice will be formally launched tomorrow with some advisers still questioning its efficacy....

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The LIF reforms might boost the capital position of a life insurer but would not increase profits, BTFG said....

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In a rare show of bipartisanship, the key superannuation industry groups have united to back the importance of group insurance within superannuation....

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The LICG proposal for a special resolution to force the AFA to oppose the LIF has failed to garner the required support...

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Financial services lawyer, Claire Wivell-Plater is warning opponents of the LIF that their obstinacy is risking a total ban on life/risk commissions....

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New academic research has confirmed that increasing regulation has been influential in banks deciding to exit elements of their wealth management and insurance businesses...

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MLC Life has flagged growth on the back of completion of the Nippon Life transaction....

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Have your say on the LIF by completing Money Management's Life/Risk survey, and then hear the outcomes debated at our annual Life/Risk breakfast. ...

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It is small independent life/risk advisers who will suffer under the LIF rather than well matured businsses with solid recurring revenue....

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Consumer group, Choice, wants default group insurance changed on the basis that people are paying for insurance they do not need rather than actually being underinsured. ...

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Risk-focused Bombora Advice has told the Productivity Commission that industry funds have a vested interest in supporting the Life Insurance Framework. ...

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Australia has the highest ratio of household debt to GDP and presents a significant risk to the country's economic future, Deloitte believes....

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