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Former director of insurance broker offers enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Life/Risk

Risk commissions paid to advisers have been under attack for some time. If they were to be completely eliminated, however, what would be a viable alternative? Col Fullaga...

Financial planning

Some planners are worried that PI requirements risk compromising best interest allocations....

Financial planning

Financial planning licensees need to take a close look at their Approved Product Lists (APLs) to ensure they are sufficiently broad, according to Minter Ellison partner R...

People & Products

Melissa Crawford has joined dealer group Securitor as national manager, insurance....

Financial planning

Business confidence in the finance and insurance industry remained steady despite an overall decline as 2012 wound down, according to Roy Morgan industry communications d...

On-going insurance risks have been identified in the Government's proposals to automatically consolidate superannuation accounts....

Life/Risk

Risk premium inflows and sales have once again achieved double-digit growth, with TAL and CommInsure emerging as success stories of 2012, according to Plan for Life figur...

Editorial

Mike Taylor argues that if financial planners are to follow a template for becoming a profession, they should choose medicine over the law....

Life/Risk

Pricing structures for the risk insurance market will continue to converge over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries Risk Insurance Market Projections Re...

Superannuation

Some SMSF compliance rules are discriminatory, lack logic and are unnecessary, according to Chan & Naylor's Ken Raiss....

Editorial

Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...

Life/Risk

TAL has become the first Australian life insurer to sign on to the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance....

Editorial

The Financial Services Council's position on life insurance churn proved controversial, attracting criticism from the likes of Synchron's Don Trapnell....

Life/Risk

Life insurer AIA Australia has launched its Priority Protection for Platform Investors product on Asgard's Personal Choice Private platform....

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