LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

Risk-focused financial advisers remain optimistic about the outlook for themselves and their practices despite the changes facing the industry, according to a Zurich Fina...

Editorial

Many definitions within life insurance have been subject to drastic changes as time rolled past. However, Col Fullagar notes income-protection cover definition is one of ...

Financial planning

Specialist financial services technology provider Omnium announced this week it had made all its iPhone and Android applications for life insurance comparisons free....

Financial planning

As baby boomers reach retirement and their latter years, intergenerational financial advice might be the answer to continued business growth in the future, according to P...

Editorial

2012 will be the year of the savvy consumer - and the financial services industry is preparing for this new trend, writes Jim Minto....

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has warned the PJC that FOFA will fail in its core objective - making financial advice more affordable....

Policy & Regulation

The National Insurance Brokers Association has warned of unnecessary fall-out from FOFA's 'one size fits all' approach....

Financial planning

The life insurance sector has shown healthy results for most of 2011 as new sales enter double-digit growth, according to the Life Analysis Report published by Dexx&r....

Financial planning

The life insurance sector has shown healthy results for most of 2011 as new sales enter double-digit growth, according to the Life Analysis Report published by Dexx&r....

Financial planning

ClearView launches product suite as part of its insurance and wealth management strategy....

Financial planning

Life and total and permanent disablement (TPD) underinsurance is costing the government around $1.3 billion annually, with only half of Australians currently insured....

Financial planning

ClearView Wealth has announced the launch of a private label wrap platform for superannuation, retirement income and investor-directed portfolio service (IDPS) accounts....

Editorial

The second tranche of the Government's Future of Financial Advice legislation has laid out the remuneration and best interests ground rules for financial planners but, as...

Editorial

Underwriting is a continually evolving area and as a result insurers need to stay ahead of the game if they are to understand the changing insurance needs of our nation, ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Life has attributed communications and call centre support as key reasons for it being awarded Five Star status in the Beaton Benchmarks 2011 – Life Insurance I...

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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 3 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. ...

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

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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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