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Zurich Financial Services Australia has bolstered its online application service by adding trauma and needlestick cover to its web-based, signature free application syste...
Financial planning
InvestmentLink has launched a new application designed to improve the management of remuneration payment obligations faced by product providers in the market....
Financial planning
AXA has constructed a new professional indemnity insurance deal for its advisers that, according to independent research, will set their premiums around 50 per cent lower...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is currently conducting a policy review regarding the appropriateness of some of the training standards within financ...
Financial planning
ING is urging clients to register their Tax File Number with their super fund to ensure their life insurance cover is protected when the new Simpler Superannuation rules ...
Financial planning
There is cautious optimism within the industry that a proposed consumer ‘compensation’ fund levy has been dropped from newly announced legislation mandating financial pla...
Financial planning
Having established a group of specialist insurance advisers as part of its operations, Ipac Securities is now looking to establish its presence in the risk arena and furt...
Financial planning
These two new stories are from different sources and have in common that the underlying cause of the complaint could have been so easily avoided. The other thing they hav...
Financial planning
A series of advertised competitions offering prizes as an incentive to ING superannuants to consolidate their super into ING’s super products is remarkable for both the n...
Life/Risk
Group income protection specialist International Underwriting Services (IUS) is set to position itself as a new player in the Australian life insurance market, claiming t...
Financial planning
Dealer group Financial Lifestyle Solutions is about to embark on an educational program designed to teach its key advisers and insurance brokers the skills needed to oper...
Financial planning
In an effort to speed up the submission process, MLC has introduced online applications for advisers wanting to access MLC’s MasterKey products....
Life/Risk
ING has announced a breakthrough tax ruling affecting its OneCare life insurance products at the same time ING Investment Management said it still has one of the largest ...
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