LIFE INSURANCE
Life/Risk
Insurance comparison website Choosi has responded to concerns raised by some risk advisers about its marketing strategy and service to consumers....
Life/Risk
New research from LifeInsuranceFinder.com.au has found that more than 65 per cent of Australians do not have adequate life insurance while almost 80 per cent have no inte...
People & Products
David Gillespie will join independent life insurer TAL as chief information officer....
Life/Risk
The life insurance sector has grown by around $200 million in the last quarter of 2012....
Life/Risk
It has been a decade since the risk industry embraced phone and online underwriting. But has this technology delivered on its promise? Chris Kirby writes....
People & Products
ClearView Wealth has appointed Mike Pope and Elliot Singfield to the senior management team as it continues to build on its life insurance, wealth management and financia...
Editorial
Challenger has produced a net profit after tax (NPAT) of $149 million for the six months to 31 December 2012, up 17 per cent on the prior corresponding period....
Life/Risk
A group of financial advisers has taken to social media to raise concerns that insurance comparison website Choosi is misrepresenting its services to clients and leading ...
Life/Risk
We can buy everything online – clothes, shoes, cars, holidays – so it is only natural that the direct life insurance channel is becoming part of the online tsunami. How t...
Financial planning
FSC's John Brogden offers to have the industry co-fund a public education campaign on the value of advice....
Life/Risk
The life insurance remains one of the more buoyant sectors of the financial services industry, according to the latest data released by the Australian Prudential Regulati...
Editorial
Suncorp Group has lifted its dividend on the back of a strong half-year result....
People & Products
Clive Levinthal has left ClearView for a CEO position at Experien Insurance Services. ...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council's backdown on its 'churning' policy has been welcomed by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council (FSC) will not go ahead with its application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to have its insurance churning policy ap...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...