INSURANCE

Life/Risk

Life insurance industry profits jumped 65 per cent in the December quarter, but there was a significant drop in revenue due to investment losses....

Financial planning

A former Guardian Financial Planning adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services after it was found she falsified 65 insurance policies to colle...

Life/Risk

MLC has improved MLC Insurance and MLC Insurance (Super) with a number of product enhancements, and updates to their insurance writing programs....

Life/Risk

In order to address the growing insurance gap in the self-managed super fund sector, AIA Australia has partnered with Australian Group Insurances to launch an online insu...

Superannuation

David Shirlow explains how to use insurance to address SMSF property investment liquidity....

Life/Risk

Different policy proposals are being suggested by the insurance industry to combat churn, but they have not been universally accepted. Who should be responsible for effor...

Life/Risk

The risk insurance industry has defied all odds and continued to experience strong growth amid economic uncertainty. However, that is not to say the sector has managed to...

Editorial

The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...

Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service has admitted it has only minimal specific information about the number of intra-fund advice disputes it handles....

Editorial

AIA Australia has reported a 21 per cent growth in premiums and a 27 per cent growth of total assets for the year ended 30 November 2011....

Life/Risk

Evolving web-based technology has helped to create more active and better informed consumers, but the insurance industry has struggled to keep up with this changing deman...

Superannuation

Mike Mitchell outlines some of the issues investors should consider before establishing or using an SMSF to purchase direct property....

Editorial

Business risk insurance should be a key component of every risk strategy, but only a fraction of companies are properly insured, writes Jason Bamford....

Editorial

Col Fullagar examines the topic of pre-existing exclusion clauses in risk insurance policies....

Financial planning

Midwinter Financial Services has launched a new product - AdviserTECH CPD - which it describes as "a simple, practical online CPD education and compliance solution for fi...

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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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