INSURANCE

Financial planning

Mortgage brokers looking to broaden the range of services they offer can now do so in a structured and simple fashion following the launch of a new licensee offer by MLC....

Financial planning

Platinum Group has undergone a corporate restructuring and will now be known as the Sentry Group....

Financial planning

OAMPS Insurance Brokers have extended their reach, signing a deal with HSBC Bank Australia to offer the bank’s commercial customers access to a range of insurance solutio...

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The Federal Court has found a former AMP financial adviser breached the law while providing superannuation switching advice....

Financial planning

AMP is piloting an automated risk insurance underwriting program, EasyWrite, for distribution by next year among both AMP planners and affiliated independent financial pl...

Life/Risk

Offering advice on insurance products is to be made easier following the adoption of standards by leading providers of life risk products....

Financial planning

Advisers who predominantly use ratings as the basis for recommending insurance products run the risk of encouraging their clients to purchase inappropriate cover due to t...

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The profitability of the Australian insurance actually declined in the March quarter of this year, according to the latest data released by the Australian Prudential Regu...

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The current minimum compensation arrangements applying to holders of an Australian Financial Services licence will continue to apply for another six months while the Gove...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 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 3 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. ...

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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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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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