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Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...
Policy & Regulation
Industry funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has urged that insurance claims handling be subject to the financial advice rules – something whi...
Life/Risk
The results of BT’s Cancer Assistance Program, which offers early intervention to clients diagnosed with cancer, have shown that the early help led to better outcomes for...
Financial planning
The majority of millennials feel confident about their financial future but aren’t prepared for the possibility of unemployment due to injury or illness, new research fro...
Superannuation
The Federal Government has issued a discussion paper canvassing lifting the minimum default levels of insurance inside superannuation as well as including total and perma...
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has received a clear message from the Government that it needs to make its Life Insurance Code of Conduct enforceable....
Features
Major banks and AMP Limited have exited life insurance, significant consolidation has occurred and the Royal Commission has delivered a verdict but, as Mike Taylor writes...
Life/Risk
TAL Dai-Chi Life Australia has finally finished its acquisition of Suncorp’s Australian life insurance business, announcing this afternoon that the process was complete....
Tools & guides
Suzie Brown outlines some of the key considerations for financial advisers when making life insurance recommendations and provides an overview of the upcoming legislative...
People & Products
An independent adviser survey has seen advisers give OnePath’s life insurance underwriting engine an ‘excellent’ rating. ...
Policy & Regulation
Despite the Australian Law Reform Commissions’ recent recommendations stemming from its Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders, Honan In...
Financial planning
A Hobart financial planner who was not sufficiently trained, despite holding a Diploma of Financial Planning from Kaplan, or competent to provide financial services has b...
Life/Risk
AUB Group has announced the acquisition of the remaining 50 per cent shareholding of one of the largest New Zealand’s insurance brokers, BrokerWeb Risk Services....
Life/Risk
In a message which will resonate with some life insurers, Australia’s general insurers have been warned against allowing outsourced service providers to handle complaints...
Policy & Regulation
Major consultancy EY has predicted both challenges and opportunities in the financial services industry in 2019 with all sectors facing greater regulatory scrutiny and fu...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...