Life Insurer AIA Australia has signed with HUB24 to provide access to and management of its risk insurance products for financial planners via HUB24’s online platform. ...

AMP Limited earnings update reveals extent of losses in Australian wealth protection division....

ClearView has boosted its number of advisers as a result of recent growth in its life insurance business....

Retail life insurance may not be the commercial panacea some financial planners believe, according to new analysis released by Tria Investment Partners....

Inflows into risk insurance products continued to climb after a strong 2012, with inflows into individual risk lump sum and income products and group risk products increa...

Rice Warner’s latest direct insurance report said that a growth in term, income protection and accident cover via direct insurance channels showed consumers were increasi...

APRA member Ian Laughlin lays it on the line on the insurer failures which have led to hefty premium rises for super fund members....

APRA buys into lapse/churn debate but points to particular problems with respect to directly-marketed products....

AFA insists any examination of churn and self-regulation must look beyond the adviser channel....

The FSC says it will resume development of self-regulation on churn from the position previously reached on claw-back. ...

The Federal Opposition says that so far as churn exists in the life/risk sector it should be subject to a self-regulatory approach....