LIFE INSURANCE
Financial planning
Advisers have been urged to stake a claim in the burgeoning $210 billion corporate superannuation market as the industry braces itself for the implementation of the choic...
Financial planning
The financial services arm of Promina, Asteron is aiming to tackle Australia’s under-insurance problem by combining wealth creation and risk insurance into a single platf...
Financial planning
Inflows to the life insurance risk market rose 10.9 per cent to $4.2 billion in the 12 months to June 2004, according to a Plan For Life report....
Life/Risk
Australians are carrying a risk of uninsurance of more than 75 per cent, with women at greatest risk of not being able to meet financial obligations in the case of death ...
Financial planning
Tower’s wealth management business could separately list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) as early as December, pending the outcome of a review of the proposed spli...
Life/Risk
Australia has been identified as having the largest income protection gap (39 per cent) of several developed countries according to findings in a new global mortality pro...
Financial planning
Switzerland-based insurance company Zurich Financial Services has nearly doubled its net income for the first half of 2004 pinning the rise on higher premium income, lowe...
Financial planning
Advisers are looking for simple software, but their needs are often more sophisticated, writes John Wilkinson....
Editorial
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed its 28 per cent rise in net profit for the financial year just ended to resurgent equity markets, improved general and l...
Financial planning
The financial services industry is bracing itself against the potential crippling cost of having to identify more than 9 million investors ahead of the Federal Government...
Financial planning
Freya Purnell looks at the effect of different advice offerings on the bottom line....
Financial planning
General insurers and life insurance companies will be required to identify, assess and manage potential disruptions to the functioning of their business including bomb th...
Financial planning
From write-downs to shedding staff, it has been a tough couple of years for Tower, but as Ross Kelly reports, things are looking up....
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...
Editorial
The chronic underinsurance problem in Australia is a financial disaster waiting to happen, but it does create opportunities for advisers. FREYAPURNELL reports....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...