The relationship between an adviser and clients is vital for the life insurance industry and insurers should support those advisers who remain through challenging times....
ClearView Wealth has announced the launch of a new life insurance product series and an integrated life insurance platform....
The sale of Westpac Life Insurance Services sees the bank’s exit manufacturing life insurance products and would release capital back to the bank. ...
Insurance profit after tax saw 42.4% growth during FY20 as it exited underperforming products while its wealth business was sold to LGIAsuper....
There were six main areas the corporate watchdog focused on which led to a $16.5 million increase in costs of regulating the financial advice sector....
The Financial Services Council has announced a collaborative work with members across the financial services industry to design templates to help enable the implementatio...
The insurer has dodged questions over the dismal of former CEO Pat Regan, who was let go last year after an investigation into workplace communications....
Westpac has confirmed that Panorama is amongst the assets under consideration for sale, but it continues to perform for the big banking group....
TAL is acknowledging the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s pursuit of charges against in the Federal Court but pointing out that the regulator did not wi...
Challenger’s group assets under management rose by 13% in the first half of the 2021 financial year, with the company declaring a dividend of 9.5 cents per share....
Suncorp has reported a 23.7% drop in group net profit after tax during the first half of 2021 despite higher cash earnings. ...
Financial advisers should not be unnecessarily entangled by the Government’s new insurance claims handling legislative framework just because they are taking on a new cli...
Suncorp has denied the existence of entrenched problems with respect to its total and permanent disability insurance offering but has nonetheless initiated a comprehensiv...
Financial advisers and authorised representatives looking to provide claims handling services for insurance products will be able to represent more than one Australian fi...
Commonwealth Bank has announced its divestment of 37.5% equity interest in BoCommLife to MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings has been approved by the China Banking and Insuran...
trustees are already requesting such confirmations when advisory fees (even via fixed term agreements) are deducted from...
CSLR should be broken down into 2 sub sectors, one for product manufacturers and one for financial advisers. Product ma...
We must stand up and show our opposition to both the ASIC Levy and CSLR as they both contribute to the high cost of advi...