INSURANCE

Tools & guides

Alena Miles looks at the importance of key person insurance in a business and how it protects the business if there is a key person death, disability, or a serious illnes...

Life/Risk

Those pushing for an EGM to change the constitution of the Association of Financial Advisers have fallen well short of the requisite five per cent of members....

Financial planning

The AIOFP has weighed into the constitutional debate within the AFA, arguing it is about breaking the shackles of institutional manipulation....

Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data has revealed disability insurance as a continuing problem for Australia’s insurers....

People & Products

QBE Insurance has appointed its former European COO, Kathryn Lisson, as a non-executive director and chair of a new operations and technology committee....

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former NSW insurance company director, Timothy Pratten, from providing financial services and from engaging in credit activities....

Life/Risk

The Productivity Commission saw insurance as a key issue impacting superannuation fund member returns and intended examining the value for money actually delivered....

Life/Risk

A permanent shift in insurance buying behaviour favoured mutuals over stock-based insurers, according to Swiss Re....

Life/Risk

Financial services group, Omniwealth, has launched Omniwealth Insurance Services to assist its business clients with their insurance services....

Life/Risk

Petplan Australasia Pty Ltd is updating its Petplan advertising after customers were exposed to misleading insurance information....

Life/Risk

The new Life Insurance Framework appears to be causing consolidation in the life/risk sector as single adviser operations feel the squeeze....

People & Products

The employment of two new senior staff will strengthen innovation, according to the Australian arm of global insurer, MetLife....

Financial planning

ANZ will launch its Grow Wrap after partnering with Macquarie in February, and will pilot a health and wellness pilot to relieve insurance costs for clients. ...

Superannuation

Super funds need to address the flaws in their insurance policies, Blueleaf Consulting believes....

Features

Life insurance solutions should be linked to impacts, not causation, and should provide benefits based on the claimant's outcome of an illness rather than just on the con...

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