RISK INSURANCE
Financial planning
More and more financial planners are getting into risk insurance, but it is not as straightforward as it may seem. For the first time, the FPA will tackle some of the iss...
Financial planning
The financial services arm of Promina, Asteron is aiming to tackle Australia’s under-insurance problem by combining wealth creation and risk insurance into a single platf...
Financial planning
Inflows to the life insurance risk market rose 10.9 per cent to $4.2 billion in the 12 months to June 2004, according to a Plan For Life report....
Financial planning
Risk insurance advisers have thrown their support behind a push for the adoption of a common risk insurance applicaton form being spearheaded by Associated Planners risk ...
Financial planning
From write-downs to shedding staff, it has been a tough couple of years for Tower, but as Ross Kelly reports, things are looking up....
Financial planning
Associated Planners has approached a number of life insurance providers with a package deal in which the dealer group is seeking rewards for advisers who generate lower c...
Financial planning
Investor Group will aim to roll out its risk insurance, finance broking and superannuation advice service offerings to clients of Sydney-based Greenwood BKT after today a...
Financial planning
IWL has moved to expand its financial advisory software to include a risk insurance tool following the appointment of former Investment Data Technologies (IDT) specialist...
Financial planning
Veteran risk adviser John Zwiers says the great trouble with the financial planning industry is that it pays lip service to the risk industry – and it has got to stop....
Financial planning
Risk selling is about selling relationships, not products. Julie Bennett and Freya Purnell report....
Financial planning
When it comes to risk advice, matching up with an experienced life adviser is probably the way to go, says Mike Taylor....
Life/Risk
The Australian insurance industry must focus on product manufacture and marketing as too many people are both uninsured and under-insured, according to AXA’s financial pr...
Financial planning
Some financial planners are moving into risk insurance, an area historically occupied by life agents. Craig Phillips looks at some of the drawbacks of such a move....
Financial planning
Risk insurance has been on the ropes for some time but it is far from down and out. In fact many in the game would contend the market must improve as it has no other opti...
Financial planning
The Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiry into commissions on risk products has veered away from recommending mandatory disclosure rules for risk advisers, warning that t...
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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...