LIFE/RISK

Life/Risk

The ISWG’s draft Life Insurance in Superannuation Code of Practice requires any opt out or cessation arrangements to be straightforward and transparent. ...

Life/Risk

Advisers can assess their business’ Life Insurance Framework readiness through AMP’s new resource hub....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told a Parliamentary committee it has seen little improvement in the delivery of non-compliant life insurance adv...

Superannuation

Industry superannuation fund Vision Super has told the Productivity Commission that the banks are ‘scandal-ridden’ and cannot be trusted with respect to insurance inside ...

Features

Technology may be vital for increasing efficiency and decreasing costs but the key to achieving this lies in how financial advice practices implement and utilise it, Jass...

Financial planning

Mortgage broker representatives have highlighted the inequity of upfront commission clawbacks....

Policy & Regulation

Evidence provided to a Parliamentary Joint Committee has thrown further doubt on the existence of life/risk churn as a major problem....

Life/Risk

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer suggests life insurance commissions should have been addressed within FOFA....

Features

The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....

Features

Why are the Japanese insurers and institutions showing such interest in Australia’s life insurance assets while our major banks are looking to the exits, Mike Taylor asks...

Editorial

Was the life insurance industry ever really guilty of “excessive” churn or was churn a means to a politically-motivated end?...

People & Products

Zurich has backed its acquisition of Macquarie Life’s risk business by appointing Peter Mitchell as national sales manager, retail risk....

Awards

Congratulations to MLC for winning Risk Company of the Year at the 2016 Adviser Choice Risk Awards for the second year in a row....

Awards

Congratulations to MLC for winning gold for its term and TPD product for the second year in a row at the 2016 Adviser Choice Risk Awards....

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Awards

Congratulations to OnePath for winning the trauma products category at the 2016 Adviser Choice Risk Awards. ...

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