LIFE INSURANCE
Financial planning
UK financial services group Halifax has paid one billion pounds ($A2.68 billion) for troubled British insurer Equitable Life....
Financial planning
Mortgage broking wholesaler Australian Finance Group (AFG) is considering listing on the Australian Stock Exchange to capitalise on the explosive growth in the mortgage b...
Financial planning
Prudential has secured a foothold in the world’s largest life insurance market with the $A357 million purchase of Orico Life Insurance in Japan....
Editorial
Since bursting on to the financial services scene in the middle of last year, account aggregators or screen scrapers have been one of the hottest discussion points in the...
Financial planning
The past five years will certainly remembered by financial services historians as the time our big institutions threw off the shackles of their mutual structures and demu...
Financial planning
Dominic Alafaci has won the 2000 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year award after coming runner up for two years in succession. John Wilkinson asks Alafaci the ...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Reform Bill reforms will have a significant impact on the operations of life insurance agents. Nicole Szollos looks at some of the changes already ...
Financial planning
Jillian Segal examines how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission regulates e-commerce, so consumers can participate with confidence in these new developmen...
Financial planning
More than 70 financial adviser practices have signed up franchise agreements with the Mawson Securities since the group launched in July....
Financial planning
Sealcorp is to ramp up its wrap account service and add screen scraping facilities to the adviserNet online service for advisers....
Financial planning
LIFE insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruling....
Life/Risk
AM Corporation has pulled the plug on its own life insurance company as a part of one of the biggest revamps in the group’s 25 year history....
Life/Risk
LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....
Financial planning
Life insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the Financial Services Reform Bill survives the impasse between the Federal and State Governments....
Financial planning
Mercantile Mutual has unveiled a 48 per cent growth in net profit in the year to September 30 to $174 million, thanks to its fast growing funds management and life insura...
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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...