Australia is proving a popular destination for international commercial property investors, with global investment hitting a pre-GFC high in the first half of 2015....
The Life Insurance Framework and other key issues are on the agenda when key planner groups meet with the new Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer this week....
The Association of Financial Advisers will tell Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer, the three-year claw-back shifts too much responsibility from insurers to advisers....
Life insurers need to innovate, rather than slashing commissions to advisers, if they want create a more sustainable model, an insurance comparison website chief believes...
Offshore investors are dominating the Australian commercial property market, led by Chinese institutional investors....
Peter Harmer will succeed Mike Wilkins as managing director and chief executive of Insurance Australian Group, next month....
Australian Unity is continuing to strengthen its Diversified Property Fund (DPF) with the purchase of a corporate office and warehouse facility in Melbourne....
BT adjusts its superannuation-related life products to accommodate changes to the terminal illness release conditions....
Australia’s major corporations may be neglecting their fiduciary duty to protect their investors by failing to adequately insure key personnel....
The Queensland Local Government Superannuation Board has been ordered to disclose advice it received in relation to a TPD claim by a former Gold Coast City Council employ...
ASIC has banned a life insurance adviser for three years after he did not meet adviser standards expected and failed to comply with financial services law....
Life Insurer AIA Australia has appointed five new distribution team members to bolster adviser support resources before the transition to the new Life Insurance Framework...
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...