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RISK INSURANCE

Financial planning

Risk insurance sales have shot up in the last 12 months, with the total industry growing more than 10 per cent on last year, a DEXX&R report shows. ...

Editorial

Karyn Hilton has been named Life Insurance Executive of the Year as part of the inaugural Money Management/Super Review Women in Financial Services Awards 2013. ...

Life/Risk

Fortnum Financial Advisers is requiring the major risk insurers to meet a higher set of standards before they can be admitted to the group’s APL as “preferred insurers”....

Life/Risk

Financial advisers still face some high hurdles in trying to match clients’ risk insurance needs with solutions but there are ways of overcoming these challenges, writes ...

Life/Risk

Risk commission concerns have blocked discussions about client trust and appropriate selling of risk insurance...

Life/Risk

OnePath has been named Money Management/DEXX&R Risk Company of the Year for the fourth consecutive year, ahead of TAL and MLC. ...

Life/Risk

Strong risk sales follow two quarters of falling sales...

Life/Risk

Rice Warner’s latest direct insurance report said that a growth in term, income protection and accident cover via direct insurance channels showed consumers were increasi...

Life/Risk

When making a risk claim, clients will often be asked to undergo an independent medical examination. Col Fullagar explains the adviser’s role in ensuring the client is tr...

Life/Risk

In the ongoing debate about risk insurance fees versus commission, it’s time to think about the financial adviser's value proposition, writes Col Fullagar. ...

Life/Risk

Risk commissions paid to advisers have been under attack for some time. If they were to be completely eliminated, however, what would be a viable alternative? Col Fullaga...

Financial planning

Wealth Today attributes a combined mortgage broking and financial advice service offering (based around the upskilling of brokers) for its rapid recent growth....

Editorial

Churn in the life/risk space remains a contentious issue, but as Col Fullagar explains, responsibility not only resides with advisers but also with the insurers and how t...

Life/Risk

The risk insurance market has seen double-digit growth over the year to March 2012, with annual premiums jumping by around $6.8 billion in the last decade....

Financial planning

Over the past six months, Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has added 26 financial advisers to its business....

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