LIFE INSURANCE
Financial planning
Life insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a ruling delivered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ...
Financial planning
The changing face of life insurance can be confusing to those not following the movements in products and suppliers. Doug Scriven takes a look at what has happened in rec...
Life/Risk
Insurance and science are set to collide as genetics moves out of the lab and into the underwriting book. ALAN DOBLE takes a look at the state of play in life insurance a...
Editorial
While the issue of life insurance will usually crop up at some point in discussions with a client, HELEN TROUP believes that a discussion of risk should cover the well-be...
Financial planning
High profile IFMA executive Sue Laing has resigned after more than a decade developing the life insurance broking and financial planning group....
Financial planning
APIR Systems has received a significant boost to extend its identification system to with a hefty capital injection from the ACT and Federal governments....
Financial planning
The high cost of life insurance transactions will see the global life companies packaging risk products with other products, says Association of Financial Advisers presid...
Life/Risk
Financial planning groups are lining up to launch their own risk insurance master trusts. ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a policy proposal paper seeking comment to remove barriers to fully electronic distribution of li...
Financial planning
Lump sum or pension reasonable benefit limit? Scarcity or abundance? What do you recommend to your clients in relation to superannuation? Grant Abbott puts it to the test...
Financial planning
Three developments in recent weeks point to an elevation of the financial planning industry onto the national political stage....
Financial planning
The Colonial brand is set to disappear from the New Zealand financial services landscape....
Financial planning
Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....
Financial planning
One of Australia’s most established financial planning networks, Deutsche Bank Financial Plan-ning, is up for sale alongside Deutsche Funds Management (DFM)....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a policy proposal paper seeking comment to remove barriers to fully electronic dis-tribution of l...
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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...