INSURANCE

Superannuation

John Kelly outlines new rules regarding insurance, and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal-use assets....

Financial planning

The number of credit unions in Australia has fallen by 36 per cent over the past five years, with fierce competition coming from major banks putting the sector at further...

Policy & Regulation

New draft Future of Financial Advice regulations released yesterday by Treasury clarify grandfathering arrangements, fee arrangements and conflicted remuneration....

Financial planning

Over the past six months, Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has added 26 financial advisers to its business....

Superannuation

Clients will be able to purchase AIA's income protection product range entirely through their superannuation following a number of product upgrades announced by the insur...

Superannuation

The CSSA has proposed corporate superannuation members be switched to MySuper products on an opt-in rather than opt-out basis to ensure their insurance benefits are not c...

Financial planning

AMP this week announced upgrades to its Elevate insurance offering, with a particular focus on people working in the mining industry....

Life/Risk

With a focus on a clear segmentation of its client base, ANZ Wealth has made a number of product enhancements to its OnePath retail life insurance offering, OneCare....

Financial planning

Professional indemnity insurance premiums for planning practices are up 30 per cent from last year, according to Alexis Insurance Brokers principal Christina Kalantzis....

Life/Risk

A Menai-based insurance broking firm has had its licence suspended for seven months following surveillance conducted by the ASIC....

Superannuation

Some self-managed super funds can claim tax deductions for the future liability to pay death and disability benefits. Nicholas Ali explains....

Financial planning

ASIC has rapped 21 financial services licensees across the knuckles for incorrectly marketing themselves as 'independent'....

Superannuation

John Kelly outlines the new rules regarding insurance and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal use assets....

Editorial

From his conversations with financial advisers, TAL Limited’s Jim Minto has identified three game-changing topics....

Financial planning

One of the world's largest privately-held insurance brokers, Lockton, has announced it will be opening two new offices in Australia via the establishment of Lockton Austr...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months 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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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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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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