The Financial Services Council’s Life Insurance Code of Practice will be formally launched tomorrow with some advisers still questioning its efficacy....
The LIF reforms might boost the capital position of a life insurer but would not increase profits, BTFG said....
In a rare show of bipartisanship, the key superannuation industry groups have united to back the importance of group insurance within superannuation....
The LICG proposal for a special resolution to force the AFA to oppose the LIF has failed to garner the required support...
Financial services lawyer, Claire Wivell-Plater is warning opponents of the LIF that their obstinacy is risking a total ban on life/risk commissions....
New academic research has confirmed that increasing regulation has been influential in banks deciding to exit elements of their wealth management and insurance businesses...
MLC Life has flagged growth on the back of completion of the Nippon Life transaction....
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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....
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. ...
Risk-focused Bombora Advice has told the Productivity Commission that industry funds have a vested interest in supporting the Life Insurance Framework. ...
Australia has the highest ratio of household debt to GDP and presents a significant risk to the country's economic future, Deloitte believes....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...