INSURANCE
Funds management
The Commonwealth Bank has confirmed a cut in its dividend but reported a better quarter for wealth management....
Life/Risk
According to Iress, wealth management companies are cutting back on software subscriptions, but subscriptions into insurance-based software are on the rise....
Financial planning
Advisers are increasingly diversifying into debt solution strategies to drive revenues in a dislocated market....
Life/Risk
The national broking group wants to strengthen its life insurance offerings in its 28 branches by recruiting FPA and AFA members to service its existing business client b...
Financial planning
After a long period of wealth creation, wealth protection is suddenly popular again. BENJAMIN LEVY takes a look at the life risk industry in 2009....
Life/Risk
Getting a client's sum insured right can be the difference between gaining a client and losing one, writes GERARD KERR....
Life/Risk
Is insurance really all about product and price, asks CHRIS KIRBY....
Life/Risk
Improved trauma definitions for progressive conditions and extended income protection insurance....
Editorial
Westpac Banking Corporation has reported just a 1 per cent fall in net profit for the six months to the end of March, but BT Financial Group has tended to struggle....
Financial planning
Korda Mentha delivers bad news to investors in one of Timbercorp Securities' last managed investment schemes....
Financial planning
The Victorian Government has announced it will provide $1 million to help with financial counselling for bushfire victims....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has moved to take hold of the fees versus commissions agenda by producing a consultation paper which proposes a phase out of existing c...
Life/Risk
Average payout for the death of a partner will not protect families from financial problems....
Financial planning
Margin lending can reap rewards for investors when times are good, but can prove disastrous in bear markets. LUCINDA BEAMAN finds out what makes up a successful margin le...
Life/Risk
Important for workers to review insurance arrangements in the current economic environment....
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...