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Planners are switching insurers at record levels, while many advisers are seeking additional support to expand their life insurance advice....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has said its role is to endorse, not enforce industry codes of conduct with enforcement being a role for industry ass...

Tech

MetLife Australia has launched digital claims tracker to allow claimants to manage and track their claims....

Life/Risk

A new whitepaper has outlined an integral role for life/risk advisers in an increasingly digital age with insurers placing them in the online mix....

Life/Risk

The insurance in super code draft has made a down payment towards the reforms needed, Maurice Blackburn believes....

Financial planning

A senior parliamentarian has quizzed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on whether insurers have simply converted the payment of shelf space fees to ‘tr...

Financial planning

Big insurer TAL has confirmed the scale of direct life/risk sales and the nature of the limited underwriting provided to such policies....

Tech

The 2017 World Insurance Report released today by Capgemini and Efma has touted the importance of innovation within the insurance industry....

Life/Risk

TAL has launched an education course to help advisers better understand the category that represents the largest claims category, cancer....

Superannuation

Auto-consolidation of multiple superannuation accounts can have significant unintended consequences including denying fund members access to crucial insurance cover, acc...

Superannuation

Superannuation fund members are being ill-served by the current group superannuation regime and should be made to opt-in, according to insurer, ClearView....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that the pool of advisers at risk of churning life/risk policies is as few as 50 people....

Superannuation

Industry superannuation fund Vision Super has told the Productivity Commission that the banks are ‘scandal-ridden’ and cannot be trusted with respect to insurance inside ...

Life/Risk

ANZ has today announced the release of its new income secure essentials and severity trauma insurance covers....

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