LIFE INSURANCE
Financial planning
AXA Australia has announced details of a new North solution that guarantees income for life, addressing the problem of Australians outliving their retirement savings....
Life/Risk
The risk insurance industry is fraught with complexities. Angela Faherty takes a look at the challenges facing the sector, and how it can work to better educate consumers...
Tools & guides
Holding large value illiquid assets in a SMSF could prove problematic when a trust member dies. Deborah Wixted explains the obligations and options trustees and their fin...
Financial planning
AMP is seeking another green light in its bid to acquire the Australian and New Zealand arms of AXA Asia Pacific, this time from New Zealand's competition watchdog, the C...
Financial planning
Frank Smith explains the importance of financial advisers tailoring Statements of Advice and how to avoid common mistakes....
Editorial
The insurance industry has a chronically high cost structure, is structurally flawed, and carries a bias against level premium policies, writes Robert Keavney. However, r...
Editorial
Sean Graham dissects the arguments made by industry super funds and some financial planners of the commissions-based remuneration of insurance in recent issues of Money M...
Financial planning
The Financial Ombudsman Service welcomes a Government announcement that Richard St John will examine a statutory compensation scheme....
Financial planning
Tower Australia has upgraded its Accelerated Protection life insurance platform to offer added protection, effective immediately....
Financial planning
Job opportunities in the banking and financial services have surged in the first quarter of 2010, particularly for highly skilled temporary and contract staff, according ...
Editorial
The debate about financial advice commissions has moved onto insurance products....
Editorial
Tower's David Denison explains why life insurance products are updated....
Financial planning
Advisers need to be more confident about their value propositions for life insurance, according to the chief executive of Tower Australia, Jim Minto....
People & Products
AIA has appointed a former Tower state manager as head of adviser services, individual life, with Pia Sciarrone returning to the group after a five-year hiatus....
Life/Risk
Alph Edwards takes a look at the recent introduction of the Insurance Contracts Amendment Bill 2010 and the critical changes it will have on the Insurance Contracts Act....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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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...