Improving consumer demand and sales volumes have bolstered life/risk adviser sentiment, according to the latest Zurich index....
Former director of insurance broker offers enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
QBE has declined to directly confirm reports it is in the process of cutting up to 700 jobs....
Risk commissions paid to advisers have been under attack for some time. If they were to be completely eliminated, however, what would be a viable alternative? Col Fullaga...
Challenger may be driving a comeback in lifetime annuity products, says Plan For Life Actuaries and Researchers after reviewing 12 months of its sales to September 2012....
Risk premium inflows and sales have once again achieved double-digit growth, with TAL and CommInsure emerging as success stories of 2012, according to Plan for Life figur...
Pricing structures for the risk insurance market will continue to converge over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries Risk Insurance Market Projections Re...
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has announced the sale of its entire UK operations following a strategic group review....
TAL has become the first Australian life insurer to sign on to the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance....
Life insurer AIA Australia has launched its Priority Protection for Platform Investors product on Asgard's Personal Choice Private platform....
The cross-selling of insurance and other products by the major banks may become an issue as the Government moves towards the so-called "auto-consolidation" of multiple su...
Some insurance and credit comparison websites are not properly licensed to provide financial services, according to ASIC....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...