LIFE/RISK

INDUSTRY NEWS

ASIC has cancelled insurance broker, Leedam’s AFSL a month after its sole director was banned from providing financial services....

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Increasing numbers of SMSF trustees are turning to direct property investments offering yields of more than twice those available through term deposits, Charter Hall reve...

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Rice Warner predicts 60 per cent will become the ultimate LIF default and that other major banks may emulate NAB in exiting life insurance manufacturing....

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CBA will be the Australian Technology Park’s anchor tenant, following the successful acquisition of the site by Mirvac, AMP Capital and Sunsuper....

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Life/risk advisers urged to get their paperwork in order if they want to ensure grandfathered arrangements under the new Life Insurance Framework....

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A Melbourne-based property developer will spend a minimum of three years behind bars for his role in misappropriating more than $750,000 of investors’ funds....

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Life insurer, Asteron Life, has guaranteed that no premium increases will be made to new business to help affordability....

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The Government has moved to make the major life insurers more clearly define lapses and therefore what is and is not churn....

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ClearView chief executive, Simon Swanson, calls on Government to follow through on making all vertically integrated financial firms include all APRA-regulated insurers on...

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Aussie household savings directed at property, lifted 25.9 per cent during the September quarter, according to St. George Bank....

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If state and territory governments replaced inefficient stamp duties on insurance policies, the national economy could be boosted by $575 million, says the ICA....

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ASIC has criticised the funeral insurance market, saying funeral insurance premiums continue to rise steeply for the over-50s, resulting in many people cancelling their p...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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The Federal Court has made interim travel restraint orders against two Falcon Capital directors, while also freezing one director’s assets....

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