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Life insurance research and software business PlanTech has launched a software package which it says will replace paper-based systems used to process proposals and applic...

Financial planning

The public and often divided debate on super fund choice has been on the boil for more than two years. It has survived two federal elec-tions; been endorsed by the ground...

Financial planning

Life insurance research group BOSS has expanded the scope of its re-search service to include factors which give advisers insight into the sustainability of products and ...

People & Products

Zurich Financial Services' retail team has been given a boost with seven appointments in recent months....

Policy & Regulation

A large proportion of Australians aged 18 to 59 are unaware of the tax benefits associated with life insurance and income protection, a recent survey commissioned by MLC ...

Financial planning

Westpac Financial Services (WFS) has recorded another huge rise in net profit, up 43.5 per cent to $75.2 million for the six months to March 1999....

Financial planning

Australia's managed funds industry is poised to break through the $500 billion for the first time....

Financial planning

1.Name: David Treacher. 2. Job Title: Financial planner. 3. Dealer group: AMP Financial Planning. 4. Age: 41. 5. Qualifications: DFP 1-7 completed, DFP 8 to be compl...

Financial planning

Within the IFSA membership the 770 page Wallis report gathers no dust. It is often referred to when the industry is preparing position statements on the CLERP 6 process. ...

Financial planning

The Australian life insurance industry is entering a period of legislation-driven change. The past 10 years has been marked as period of restructuring and expense control...

Financial planning

There is mounting evidence in the marketplace that life insurance companies are starting to pay more than lip service to some of the folly of the last decade. Executives ...

Life/Risk

The term life insurance market has taken a nosedive following meteoric growth in the mid 1990s. According to the latest Rice Kachor Research market share report, the term...

Financial planning

The Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA) has refuted claims that it is holding formal talks to merge its external complaints resolution scheme. However, Mon...

Financial planning

As managed funds market share data affirms, the banks can be fierce competitors when they get their acts together. Now, Australia's major banks are taking more than a pas...

Financial planning

Senior management at life insurance research and software group BOSS has secured control of the group and acquired rivals Life Research. BOSS management has purchased the...

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