LIFE INSURANCE
Editorial
The introduction of choice has brought personal insurance to the fore. Jodi Murray and Carly O’Keefe discuss the pros and cons of going it alone....
Financial planning
The introduction of super choice will give financial planners an opportunity to demonstrate the value of insurance benefits, and hopefully increase general awareness amon...
Financial planning
MBF Life and MBF-owned ClearView Life Nominees are the latest in a growing line of insurance companies which have been ordered by regulators to compensate clients overcha...
Life/Risk
Centrestone Wealth Advisory Group has acquired the risk insurance practise of Garvan Financial Planning risk insurance representative Phil Dixon....
Financial planning
The financial services division of the Promina group, Asteron, has begun a program to more closely align its Australian and New Zealand businesses....
Financial planning
Long-suffering AMP shareholders have finally received some good news from the UK, with spin-off HHG recording a 38 million pound profit for calendar year 2004....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it will undertake another shadow-shopping exercise to ensure financial planners are not misselling in t...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers’ long quest to resolve its designation woes will come to fruition at the end of the month when advisers officially take on its new F...
Funds management
The financial services division of the Promina group will undergo an internal restructure as it looks to turn a tidy profit into a growth strategy for its adviser network...
Financial planning
It’s official. After three years living together, ING and ANZ have signed the papers and will this year get hitched for real through their joint venture company, ING Aust...
Financial planning
Consumer complaints against financial planners have fallen dramatically, prompting claims that measures taken to clean up the profession were starting to take hold....
Financial planning
ING Australia, the joint venture between ING group and ANZ, has booked a net profit after tax of $327 million for calendar 2004, up 52 per cent on 2003’s result which was...
Editorial
Promina’s financial services division has contributed $132 million of the group’s $458 million profit for 2004, although the wealth management businesses chipped in just ...
Life/Risk
Australia’s life insurers have an opportunity to grow thanks to the population becoming relatively underinsured, but regulatory and competitive challenges stand before th...
Financial planning
NZ-based life insurance and investment management firm Tower Group has been given the all-clear to proceed with the spin-off of its Australian Wealth Management business ...
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MARKET INSIGHTS
Podcast
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...