The financial planning industry’s two major member associations have confirmed that they will be taking a joint approach to the regulator’s life insurance review, with re...

When the new assistant minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Jane Hume is sworn in tomorrow she will face some significant challenges ...

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....

The attitude of politicians from both the major parties has made clear that life/risk advisers will have to fight hard to retain commission-based remuneration beyond the ...

New research has confirmed what the life insurance already knew that most consumers simply don’t want to pay for life/risk advice – something which places new importance ...

The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed the Royal Commission failed to hit what it was aiming at and, instead, has impacted small financial advisers and mortgag...

Risk-focused financial planning group, Synchron has signalled its intention to lobby the Government for the retention of life/risk commissions beyond the 2022 Life Insura...

Financial advisers have named their top three challenges and it’s no surprise education reforms are in the top spot. ...

Upcoming changes to adviser remuneration will have profound implications and advisers must act quickly to diversify and grow their revenue or potentially suffer an immedi...

If insurers were made to drop underwriting policies at the time of claim could they accept the accompanying commercial pain?...

The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....

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...

The AFA has received the required number of forms needed for an extraordinary general meeting....

The AFA board has rejected a call from within the LICG for an EGM to pass a special resolution imposing limits to the AFA board’s discretionary powers....