The LIF reforms might boost the capital position of a life insurer but would not increase profits, BTFG said....

The Government's legislation underpinning the Life Insurance Framework will enter Parliament next week with the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer...

Financial services lawyer, Claire Wivell-Plater is warning opponents of the LIF that their obstinacy is risking a total ban on life/risk commissions....

The delayed LIF start date of 2018 will allow self-employed advisers more time to prepare their businesses for the significant reduction in initial commissions, the AFA b...

Have your say on the LIF by completing Money Management's Life/Risk survey, and then hear the outcomes debated at our annual Life/Risk breakfast. ...

The AFA board is telling its members the LICG’s proposed resolution to ensure the AFA opposed the Life Insurance Framework legislation for three years would substantially...

Sentry Group has teamed up with fintech provider, Intiger Asset Management, to provide a centralised back office administration and para planning solution to its advisers...

In part one of a two-part article, Col Fullagar will consider an alternative way to achieve Trowbridge's suggested reforms for life insurance companies, and in so doing s...

There can be no doubting how many life/risk advisers remain aggrieved by the LIF outcome, but bi-partisan Parliamentary support means there is no unscrambling the omelett...

Advisers and adviser associations agreed to life insurance framework reforms under duress, while the reforms failed to address insurers’ commercial imperatives, the LICG ...

Sentry Group chief executive, Murray Hills, has urged unity amid continuing ructions over LIF within the AFA....

New Investment Trends research has confirmed the Life Insurance Framework has already hit the bottom lines of risk advice practices....

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

With $100 million in claims under its belt, AFRM is pointing to the value of adviser knowledge and the use of preferred insurers....