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In a similar way to mortgage brokers, life/risk advisers are going to have to make their case if they want to retain commission-based remuneration structures....

Life/Risk

Just 18 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission delivering its review of the Life Insurance Framework a serious contradiction has emerged – s...

Life/Risk

From 1 October life insurance companies will be subject to upfront capital penalties until the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is assured they have taken adequ...

Life/Risk

New research has confirmed what most life/risk advisers already knew – that front-loading discounts on life/risk products to buy market share ultimately works against the...

Life/Risk

Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that the future o...

Life/Risk

Risk advisers need some relief from the harshness of clawback arrangements as life/risk clients move to cut their costs, according to the Association of Financial Adviser...

Life/Risk

Life/risk advisers have been caught in a bind as they find themselves at risk of clawbacks as they seek to help clients deal with financial hardship by winding back premi...

Life/Risk

The efforts of many clients and their life/risk advisers to write Agreed Value income protection cover before the 1 April deadline were stymied by the job COVID-19 job lo...

Life/Risk

Synchron director, Don Trapnell, said life/risk advisers are being treated unfairly under the education requirements and deserve a separate standard suited to the profess...

Life/Risk

Almost one-third of a survey’s respondents said life insurance products confused them and 65% of people without the product would rely on savings if they contracted a maj...

Life/Risk

The conditions attaching to some total and permanent disability insurance products sold inside superannuation made them tantamount to junk, according to consumer group, C...

Life/Risk

Lowers sales through advice channels have helped contribute to life/risk new sales reaching a five year low, according to new data released by Dexx&r....

Life/Risk

Fewer financial planners consider client-related challenges to be significant when it comes to growing insurance advice, according to a report....

Life/Risk

Newly-merged MBS Insurance and Complete Risk Analysis see potential for growth in the life/risk space despite the challenges....

Life/Risk

Using life insurance APLs at institutionally-aligned advice licensees has the potential to breach best interests duty and most continue to funnel new clients into in-hous...

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