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Financial planning
Whether you are the adviser replacing a life insurance policy, or the one who recommended it in the first place, you should be fine as long as it's only ever about the cl...
Life/Risk
Improving consumer demand and sales volumes have bolstered life/risk adviser sentiment, according to the latest Zurich index....
People & Products
TAL has appointed former OnePath Life Risk head of finance and strategy Fred Rowley as chief actuary....
Life/Risk
Risk commissions paid to advisers have been under attack for some time. If they were to be completely eliminated, however, what would be a viable alternative? Col Fullaga...
Life/Risk
Pricing structures for the risk insurance market will continue to converge over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries Risk Insurance Market Projections Re...
Superannuation
Insurers and superannuation funds will need to start making tailored insurance offers to customers to combat the underinsurance problem, rather than continuing the "blank...
Superannuation
Some SMSF compliance rules are discriminatory, lack logic and are unnecessary, according to Chan & Naylor's Ken Raiss....
Life/Risk
TAL has become the first Australian life insurer to sign on to the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance....
Editorial
The Financial Services Council's position on life insurance churn proved controversial, attracting criticism from the likes of Synchron's Don Trapnell....
Accounting
SPAA hopes to become part of the limited advice licensing regime by offering its Public Practice Certificate to accountant members....
Financial planning
A financial adviser has raised concerns about some of the marketing strategies used by banks to sell life insurance, which could have a negative financial impact on risk ...
Financial planning
The provisions concerning general advice raise more questions about where the line is drawn between personal and general advice, according to King & Wood Mallesons specia...
Financial planning
Estate planning is more than just writing a Will and certainly isn’t something that should be left until the last minute, writes Anna Hacker....
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that legally enshrining the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ is a necessary step towards creating a barrier to an industry being tarnished by spivs and...
Life/Risk
Most Australians would rather spend any extra income on building up their savings than upgrading their life insurance policies, according to a national poll by TAL....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...