Fortnum Financial Advisers is requiring the major risk insurers to meet a higher set of standards before they can be admitted to the group’s APL as “preferred insurers”....

Around half of Australian adults are more likely to use the internet rather than visit a financial adviser or broker when researching or changing a financial product. ...

Life insurer TAL has unveiled a new technology solution for its latest partner, which it says aligns the group insurance market with global standards for the first time. ...

Financial advisers still face some high hurdles in trying to match clients’ risk insurance needs with solutions but there are ways of overcoming these challenges, writes ...

ASIC has made it clear it would like to see life insurance commissions banned as it would be the most effective way of combating churn, according to The Fold Legal managi...

Insure 247 has made changes to its online insurance websites after ASIC raised concerns that they contained misleading and deceptive advertising....

TAL has acquired the remainder of online insurance comparator Lifebroker after holding a small stake in the company for three years. ...

Risk commission concerns have blocked discussions about client trust and appropriate selling of risk insurance...

ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell has used his speech at the AFA national conference to announce major surveillance of retail advice with respect to life insurance. ...

CommInsure’s Tim Browne says the company had stopped using the word ‘churn’ because it doesn’t accurately represent the underlying issue, which is policy design....

Wealth management firm Centric Wealth has cautioned investors against buying life insurance products online, as their complexity could result in a claim being rejected....