The Commonwealth Bank has confirmed a cut in its dividend but reported a better quarter for wealth management....
According to Iress, wealth management companies are cutting back on software subscriptions, but subscriptions into insurance-based software are on the rise....
Advisers are increasingly diversifying into debt solution strategies to drive revenues in a dislocated market....
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...
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....
Getting a client's sum insured right can be the difference between gaining a client and losing one, writes GERARD KERR....
Is insurance really all about product and price, asks CHRIS KIRBY....
Improved trauma definitions for progressive conditions and extended income protection insurance....
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....
Korda Mentha delivers bad news to investors in one of Timbercorp Securities' last managed investment schemes....
The Victorian Government has announced it will provide $1 million to help with financial counselling for bushfire victims....
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...
Average payout for the death of a partner will not protect families from financial problems....
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...
Important for workers to review insurance arrangements in the current economic environment....
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...