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Superannuation
Major superannuation funds have expressed concern at having to retain at least 0.25 per cent of their funds under management to meet operational risk financial requiremen...
Life/Risk
MetLife has secured the insurance mandate of Tasplan, following a tender process which will see the insurer deliver group life offerings to the fund’s 145,000 members....
Life/Risk
Life/risk insurers have been placed on notice that the Royal Commission may recommend measures to hold them responsible for psychiatric injury inflicted on clients by cla...
Life/Risk
New research has found that government-mandated insurance disclosure doesn’t help people make better purchasing decisions when it comes to insurance....
Life/Risk
Direct life insurance is barely worth the paper it is written on, according to the chairman of life/risk-focused dealer group Synchron, Michael Harrison....
Life/Risk
TAL will today join ClearView and Freedom in being scrutinised by the Royal Commission on the failings of direct life/risk sales business....
Funds management
Money Management has looked at the top performing high-and-low-risk Australian equity funds to see whether high-volatility funds are a risk worth taking....
Life/Risk
TAL, CommInsure, AMP and ClearView have been named to front the next round of hearings of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financia...
Financial planning
Planners’ uptake on providing advice on insurance is low, leading to adverse impacts on practice revenue derived from risk advice, Investment Trends has found....
Life/Risk
New research from Roy Morgan has shown only 6.1 per cent of risk and life insurance policy holders looking to switch providers are doing so upon the advice of a broker or...
Funds management
Money Management has looked at the Australian equity funds outperforming the ASX 200 and maintaining a lower FE Risk Score. ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it has already leveraged lapse data provided by the major life insurers to act against life/risk advise...
Policy & Regulation
Independent Reserve has become the first Australian digital currency exchange to be regulated by the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre under new regulati...
Financial planning
A key Parliamentary Committee has recommended more action to address what it describes as a “plethora of hidden payments” in the life/risk industry....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Opposition has taken a calculated risk with its proposed changes to dividend imputation, according to key industry superannuation fund spokespeople....
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...