INSURANCE
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a policy proposal paper seeking comment to remove barriers to fully electronic dis-tribution of l...
Financial planning
Australian Unity has stepped up its direct distribution efforts with the announcement it is to offer insurance through Telstra’s Web site....
Financial planning
Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....
Financial planning
John Hibberd has drawn the curtains on his three year tenure as president of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA). ...
Financial planning
The shortage of good advisers has hit RACV Financial Services (RACVFS) turnover during the last financial year, says executive general manager sales and marketing Phil Tu...
Financial planning
Australia’s life insurance industry is more than five times as big as its next biggest rival competing to be recognised as the region’s financial services hub...
Policy & Regulation
New Zealand credit unions may soon follow their Australian counterparts and lose a century old tax exemption....
Financial planning
Risk products that don’t pay commissions – you’ve got to be joking. Refunding trail commissions – too hard....
Financial planning
The shortage of good advisers has hit RACV Financial Services (RACVFS) turnover during the last financial year, says executive general manager sales and marketing Phil Tu...
People & Products
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell director of marketing and client service Chris Ryan will take on the role of head of business development in asset management with ANZ Funds Mana...
Financial planning
FORMER insurance and superannuation agent, Ivan Thomas Merlin of Ballarat, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, after being charged with larceny and charges rel...
Financial planning
Insurance brokers must act now to implement a compliance infrastructure to meet the demands of the ASIC policy statement 161 according to Paul Harding-Davis head of the F...
Financial planning
Chase Manhattan Bank has forked out nearly $60 billion to acquire JP Morgan in a stock swap valued....
Financial planning
A national savings summit may sound somewhat grandiose but I believe it is now vital to Australia that the bell should be rung....
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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’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...