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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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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