LIFE/RISK ADVISERS

Life/Risk

MLC Life’s new chief of life insurance, Sean McCormack, has acknowledged the adverse impacts of the company’s technology changes but says the company is accepting its res...

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Policy & Regulation

If the Government applied the same logic to life/risk and grandfathered commissions as it did to refundable franking credits during the election, then it would be support...

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Life/Risk

Major insurer ClearView has urged life/risk advisers to complete a survey about the future of their businesses in a post-LIF and Royal Commission world so their voices ca...

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Life/Risk

New data on life insurance claims and disputes has confirmed clients are often better off when they use an adviser....

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Features

Upcoming changes to adviser remuneration will have profound implications and advisers must act quickly to diversify and grow their revenue or potentially suffer an immedi...

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Life/Risk

A new analysis has suggested life/risk advisers are facing an almost immediate 33 per cent reduction in cashflow when the new Life Insurance Framework is activated on 1 J...

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Financial planning

Older accountants and planners looking for an emergency exit from the industry would have to accept “fire sale” prices unless they modernised, similar to the dilemma face...

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Editorial

There will always be a big question mark over whether churn was a real problem or a handy political lever, but the outcome represents the exercise of pragmatic politics....

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Financial planning

The AFA has welcomed the Government’s move to introduce the life insurance remuneration bill to the lower house today, particularly the move to treat life insurance attai...

Editorial

There can be no doubting how many life/risk advisers remain aggrieved by the LIF outcome, but bi-partisan Parliamentary support means there is no unscrambling the omelett...

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Life/Risk

New Investment Trends research has confirmed the Life Insurance Framework has already hit the bottom lines of risk advice practices....

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