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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....

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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....

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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....

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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...

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Offshore investors are dominating the Australian commercial property market, led by Chinese institutional investors....

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Peter Harmer will succeed Mike Wilkins as managing director and chief executive of Insurance Australian Group, next month....

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Australian Unity is continuing to strengthen its Diversified Property Fund (DPF) with the purchase of a corporate office and warehouse facility in Melbourne....

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BT adjusts its superannuation-related life products to accommodate changes to the terminal illness release conditions....

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Australia’s major corporations may be neglecting their fiduciary duty to protect their investors by failing to adequately insure key personnel....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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