LIFE INSURANCE FRAMEWORK
Financial planning
AFA general manager of policy and professionalism, Phil Anderson, has responded to questions about whether the planning group will be doing anything to get the Life Insur...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was never really empowered to seriously change the status of ‘general advice’ when Government reviews were on foot....
Features
From the implementation of the FASEA regime through to the recommendations of the Royal Commission, Mike Taylor writes, a lot had changed before the Australian Securities...
Life/Risk
Just 18 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission delivering its review of the Life Insurance Framework a serious contradiction has emerged – s...
Life/Risk
As the Australian Securities and Investments Commission kicks off its review of the Life Insurance Framework a new report has defended the value of life/risk commissions....
Life/Risk
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has kicked off the first phase of its review of the Life Insurance Framework with the issuing of Section 33 notices t...
Editorial
Many things have changed in the Australian life insurance industry since the Life Insurance Framework was put in place meaning that the Australian Securities and Investme...
Features
Mike Taylor writes that less than 12 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework, the Australian life in...
Life/Risk
Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that the future o...
Life/Risk
Life/risk advisers have been caught in a bind as they find themselves at risk of clawbacks as they seek to help clients deal with financial hardship by winding back premi...
Editorial
With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework just around the corner, the last thing life/risk advisers need is criti...
Life/Risk
Life insurers are struggling to sustain profitability in the face of challenging markets and tighter regulation with the Life Insurance Framework also playing a part....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged a surveillance exercise around life/risk advice to back up its assessment of the Life Insurance Framework...
Financial planning
Advisers would do well to assume worst-case scenario outcomes when it comes to extending the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority deadlines, according to weal...
Life/Risk
A new survey has revealed that consumers are cooling on the purchase of life/risk insurance with the number of advisers actually involved also declining....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...