INSURANCE
Financial planning
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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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...