INSURANCE

Life/Risk

APRA outlines capital adequacy and solvency standards ahead of amendments to Life Act....

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OnePath has won another gold in the Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Awards – this time in the Term and TPD Rider Product category....

Top 100

OnePath's Trauma Premier cover has taken out this year’s Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Award for trauma products....

Top 100

OnePath has remained at the top of the insurance game over the past 12 months and has again been named Money Management/Dexx&r's Risk Company of the Year....

Life/Risk

Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden has defended the FSC's position with regards to a controversial insurance commission policy, but apologised if it ...

Life/Risk

Australians have $660 million invested in arts and collectables, but a 'significant proportion' of these assets are uninsured, according to Self Super Insurance....

Financial planning

The Government has outlined a range of changes to give APRA greater scope to take pre-emptive action....

Financial planning

ASIC has monitored more than 3,300 providers of financial advice over the past year, dedicating 29 staffers to the surveillance....

Life/Risk

OnePath has been crowned Money Management/DEXX&R Risk Company of the Year 2012, with TAL and BT Life taking silver and bronze respectively....

Life/Risk

Around 44 per cent of the people licensed to conduct general insurance business in Australia did not actually place any general insurance business in the first six months...

People & Products

A new head of wholesale and a national account manager have joined the ranks of Fidelity Worldwide Investment's Australian team....

Financial planning

FOFA has radically altered the dynamics of financial planning platforms, generating new approaches across the industry and between platform providers....

Life/Risk

The opt-in requirement will touch the day-to-day operations of risk advisers who have switched to some form of fee remuneration model, writes Sue Laing....

Life/Risk

New Investment Trends research confirms life/risk has grown in importance in the planner revenue equation....

Life/Risk

APRA has substantially maintained its oversight on capital frameworks for insurers....

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