Metlife appoints Damien Green as interim Australian CEO following looming departure of Marc Lieberman. ...

NAB Wealth has reported a mixed result for the year ending 30 September, mostly due to the challenging life insurance industry conditions....

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....

Choosi’s parent company Hollard Financial Services has agreed to change the way it promotes funeral insurance under the Real Insurance brand, as a result of concerns rais...

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....

American International Group Australia (AIG) has launched what it is promoting as the world's first "Evergreen" management insurance policy, titled Gold Complete....

Life insurance claim payments have jumped by 10.7 per cent over the last 12 months, breaking through $4 billion in claim payments, according to new figures released by th...

Small businesses in the finance and insurance industry were the most likely to report a rise in revenue for the last year, according to a survey conducted by accountancy ...

APRA wants to remove the confidentiality status of data collected from Australia’s major insurers....

We can buy everything online – clothes, shoes, cars, holidays – so it is only natural that the direct life insurance channel is becoming part of the online tsunami. How t...

In the ongoing debate about risk insurance fees versus commission, it’s time to think about the financial adviser's value proposition, writes Col Fullagar. ...

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is set to seek class order relief from provisions in the Trade Practices Act in order to implement its anti-churning policy, accordin...

BlackRock analysis points to a need for investors to review fixed interest allocations in a low-rate environment....