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Financial planning

The Insurance Council of Australia has told the Productivity Commission that general insurance agents feel hamstrung by the personal advice rules and want more flexibilit...

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Life/Risk

Business advisory firm Ecovis Clark Jacobs and risk specialist MBS Insurance have announced a new integrated insurance offering, Ecovis Clark Jacobs Insurance, expanding ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has placed superannuation funds on notice that it believes the Insurance in Superannuation code of conduct does not go far ...

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Life/Risk

QBE Group has sold its Latin American operations to Zurich as it confirmed a substantial full-year loss....

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Expert Analysis

Col Fullagar writes that there may be a way for financial advisers to satisfactorily move their remuneration beyond the confines imposed by the Life Insurance Framework....

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Life/Risk

The penalties applied to ClearView yesterday are proof of a wider issue of aggressive sales tactics within the insurance industry, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers....

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Life/Risk

New survey data has confirmed that the online sales of life/risk insurance have been increasing exponentially – up 108 per cent over the past five years....

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People & Products

KPMG Australia is looking to grow its advisory presence in the evolving wealth and life/risk sectors....

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Policy & Regulation

Suncorp and Allianz have been obliged to make refunds to customers worth millions of dollars after being found to have offered so-called ‘add-on’ insurance of little or n...

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People & Products

Yellow Brick Road Group customers will be offered Suncorp’s Vero general insurance products as the result of a new agreement between the two companies....

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Superannuation

The lack of enforceability around the insurance inside superannuation Code of Practice has resulted in it getting a muted and highly qualified welcome in many superannuat...

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Life/Risk

New research from Roy Morgan has revealed that it is the smaller life/risk insurers who have earning greater levels of consumer satisfaction....

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Life/Risk

Honan Insurance Group has linked with MBS Insurance to provide a new offering to clients....

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Financial planning

Approved Product Lists help make advisers more efficient and keep the cost of delivering advice under control, according to the Financial Services Council....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has claimed that ridding the life/risk sector of legacy products could save at least $94 million....

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