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Based on enrolments in its industry-aligned courses, TAL Risk Academy has revealed the most commonly-sought areas of help for advisers in the last year....
Features
The life insurance industry’s losses have stemmed mostly from unsustainable income protection products, Jassmyn Goh writes, but will the new products help end bad habits?...
People & Products
The life insurer has launched two income protection products that allow most customers to have the maximum sum insured allowable with premium stability and product sustai...
Life/Risk
Consumers will have the choice between sticking with increasingly expensive features-rich income protection products or moving to more affordable products to be launched ...
Life/Risk
An under pressure OnePath has stepped up its efforts to cut its losses on income protection insurance by announcing a 25% increase in premiums for existing customers as w...
Life/Risk
Insurer Clearview has confirmed it will cease the sale of agreed value income protection policies from 31 March....
Expert Analysis
Many Australians will have insurance as part of their superannuation, writes SuperFriend’s Sandy Macleod, but could the industry do more to support its clients?...
People & Products
The fintech firm has launched a new online product comparison tool to help advisers compare the fees and features of over 1,000 superannuation, pension and investment fun...
Financial planning
ClearView has announced the removal of its financial advice segment from embedded value calculations as a part of a broader resetting of its business in 2H FY19....
Expert Analysis
The components of life insurance and income protection can seem like a maze. Col Fullagar turns the confusion to clarity by looking to the past to explain why each compon...
Life/Risk
Life/risk insurer, ClearView has announced new premium pricing in the face of claims experience and the economic environment....
Life/Risk
A new white paper has argued for the life/risk sector to adopt a new approach to income protection reflecting the reality of economic conditions and earnings....
People & Products
Zurich Insurance Group has launched a research program in conjunction with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. ...
Expert Analysis
With income protection insurance benefit commutations becoming increasingly prevalent and calls from the insured and advisers seeking assistance growing, Col Fullagar pro...
Life/Risk
Nearly a quarter of income protection claims involve mental health conditions, according to ANZ claims data....
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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...