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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar spoke about the so-called claims management bullies earlier this year at the Money Management Risk Issues workshop. In this second part of his presentation h...

Financial planning

The chairman of the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC laments that its greatest successes appear to have occurred after the damage has already been done....

Financial planning

ASIC signals it will look to the most senior levels when it detects a bad compliance culture....

Financial planning

Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive officer Brad Fox has called for a new life insurance awareness campaign after a white paper revealed a huge gap be...

Editorial

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

Editorial

When Commonwealth Financial Planning was subjected to an enforceable undertaking imposed by ASIC in 2011, it was the subject of a good deal of media coverage in Money Man...

Editorial

Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...

Financial planning

Homesafe Solutions believes market conditions have generated an environment conducive to equity release products....

Life/Risk

Some progress appears to be being made towards finding common ground on life/risk sustainability and churn....

Accounting

A new ICAA white paper argues the case for a new Government to recognise the ability of accountants to rebuild community trust in the financial services industry....

Editorial

With Parliament having risen for the final time before the Federal election and the new legislative settings now largely in place, Lisa Claes says that when the regulator...

Financial planning

Insurer AIA Australia has launched its Priority Protection product suite on the Asgard superannuation platform....

Financial planning

Financial advisers should not ignore the value of having soft and sales skills when it comes to servicing their clients, writes Tim Browne. ...

Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

Financial planning

AMP will make it mandatory for nearly 2000 planners to be members of a professional association. ...

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