LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell warns against ‘gaming’ the general advice regime....

Editorial

While plenty of attention has been directed towards advisers and the sale of life/risk products, Mike Taylor writes that a recent ASIC Review of general insurance has rev...

Financial planning

AIS selected by Western Australia’s RAC to provide life and accident cover....

Life/Risk

Cheap group insurance cover has been used by industry funds to partially erode the client base of financial advisers while shoring up their own member base....

Life/Risk

SMEs will be able to obtain group life cover from MetLife Insurance Ltd that was previously sold through superannuation funds as part of its partnership with insurance br...

Financial planning

Clearview announces new management structure in wake of Matrix acquisition....

Life/Risk

Life insurers operating in the group risk area ignored warnings from APRA that price reductions and soft underwriting practices would affect profitability...

Awards

Taking a lead in delivering a new insurance product to the market and creating master classes saw BT Financial Group’s Katherine Ashby get the award for Money Management ...

Life/Risk

An analysis of the ASIC review of life insurance and advice has pointed to the underlying complexities and the absence of any quick fixes. ...

Financial planning

ANZ reports a $7.3 billion profit with its Wealth businesses making a solid contribution....

Editorial

Peter Stathis looks at the impact narrowing premium gaps could have on life insurance in super. ...

Life/Risk

Jim Minto tracks how the life insurance industry has evolved, particularly with the advent of new superannuation channels....

Editorial

The reasons for churn in the life/risk arena are long-standing and well-known and insurers need to accept their share of the blame....

Accounting

Accountants who provide advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) need to consider the level of advice they want to give clients before new licensing rules come...

Life/Risk

Rice Warner says upfront life commissions can be justified where advisers have done the hard yards on initial advice....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 3 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

2 weeks ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

6 days 17 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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