INSURANCE

Life/Risk

Superannuation choice will put funds’ insurance offerings under the spotlight like never before, and lead to a tightening of criteria for coverage, a survey has predicted...

Life/Risk

Under the new Financial Services Reform regime, AFS licensees will be required to address risk in the same way they address other areas. SUE LAING reports....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sent another strong signal that it plans to take a hands-on role to police the superannuation industry in the lea...

Financial planning

The message is clear, says Sue Laing, financial planners must address risk with their clients. And if they are not going to form a strategic alliance with a risk adviser,...

Financial planning

Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...

Editorial

Proceeds from the sale of the Australian arm of its wealth management business, a benevolent market climate and the completion of a successful two year recovery strategy ...

Financial planning

While it would seem the American financial consumer likes hands-on help, Australians may want some ’professional distance’, as Ray Griffin investigates....

Financial planning

Perpetual Investment’s decision to establish a Dublin-based in-house international equities office has cost them $250 million in funds under management, thanks to the clo...

Financial planning

Genesys Wealth Advisers has succeeded in luring two practises away from rival dealer groups in what the Challenger own planning business claims will be the first of many ...

Financial planning

A former South Australian insurance adviser has been handed a suspended sentence by an Adelaide court after being brought up on charges of fraud and deception instigated ...

Financial planning

Colonial First State’s FirstChoice platform has been spruced up ahead of the July 1 arrival of super choice, with several manager and asset class additions, insurance pre...

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services will look to a series of strategic alliances to boost referrals to its network of advisers after signing an initial deal with a national mor...

Editorial

The introduction of choice has brought personal insurance to the fore. Jodi Murray and Carly O’Keefe discuss the pros and cons of going it alone....

Financial planning

MBF Life and MBF-owned ClearView Life Nominees are the latest in a growing line of insurance companies which have been ordered by regulators to compensate clients overcha...

Financial planning

The introduction of super choice will give financial planners an opportunity to demonstrate the value of insurance benefits, and hopefully increase general awareness amon...

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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. ...

1 week ago

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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