LIFE INSURANCE

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers and consultants claim life/risk advisers may actually see advantages in the new post-Trowbridge hybrid remuneration environment....

Financial planning

The AIOFP has claimed the FPA and AFA are ‘livid’ with the FSC over the Life Insurance Framework and questioned the ability of the two advice groups to represent members ...

Life/Risk

Big insurer, TAL, has launched a new consumer-oriented lifebroker comparison tool....

Financial planning

The AFA announced a life insurance roadshow for insurance advisers after they indicated they need support to move from upfront to hybrid commissions....

Life/Risk

Non-aligned planning group Synchron expects planners to quickly adapt to the Life Insurance Framework and intends to pick up advisers moving as a result of the changes....

Life/Risk

Life/risk insurers must deliver a meaningful code of conduct in the post-Trowbridge environment, according to TAL chief executive, Brett Clark....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has drawn a line in the sand on any capping of level commissions....

Life/Risk

The AIOFP has claimed it was locked out of tri-party discussions around life insurance commission and has called for the full submission to be publicly released....

Financial planning

The FPA has rejected claims by the AIOFP that its members were not consulted and that institutions shaped its proposal on life insurance commission changes....

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers wants lapses which are beyond the control of advisers to be exempted from the three-year claw-back provisions....

Financial planning

The AIOFP has fired another shot in the direction of the FPA, AFA, and FSC claiming advisers were the victims of a political strategy to improve the image of those associ...

Life/Risk

The AIOFP has called for a shorter claw back period, 70 per cent upfront commissions with partial retention upon early termination and restrictions on advisers who churn....

Life/Risk

Life insurer AIA Australia has committed to another five years of partnership with the mental health initiative SuperFriend....

Life/Risk

The focus on premiums reductions under the new LIF regime ignores wider changes that will take place in the insurance sector, according to the head of a major insurer....

Life/Risk

Life/risk advisers are craving detail on their new remuneration regime with the three-year claw-back the most problematic issue....

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