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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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 3 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 4 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

3 days 18 hours ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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