RISK/LIFE
Financial planning
Reforms to education for advisers should include pathways for existing advisers, and risk advisers with decades of experience should not have to re-train....
Financial planning
Life/risk advisers should already be moving towards new post-LIF remuneration models....
Awards
National Australia Bank’s wealth management arm, MLC, has been named Risk Company of the Year in the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards....
Awards
MLC’s Insurance Life Cover and TPD product has struck gold in the Term and TPD Product award at the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Risk Choice Awards. ...
Awards
OnePath’s Trauma Premier product has proven to be the best after winning in the trauma category for the second year in a row, with MLC again taking silver, and TAL winnin...
Awards
Good underwriting and a focus on affordability have been central to the success of TAL’s Accelerated Protection Income Protection Premier product....
Awards
Being open to adviser feedback and suggestions, and incorporating them into their product has seen ClearView clinch the top prize second year in a row. ...
Awards
Offering high levels of total and permanent disability and death cover, as well as competitive insurance premium rates for members has seen Kinetic Super get the gong....
Awards
MLC has secured the top spot for the Super Risk Disability Income Product award, after coming in second last year....
Financial planning
Specialist research house Dexx&r has pointed to discontinuance rates in life/risk actually moving through cycles, with the most recent cycle peaking in about September, 2...
Financial planning
Risk advisers are specialists and require their own professional standards stream, says Synchron’s Don Trapnell....
Financial planning
ASIC has issued a discussion paper on the new Life Insurance Framework with a tough analysis of the clawback arrangements....
Life/Risk
Conduct risk will be a central theme for life insurers and regulators over the next decade, an expert believes....
Life/Risk
Money Management once again teamed up with research house, DEXX&R, for the twelfth consecutive year to recognise excellence in the life/risk industry at the 2015 Adviser ...
Financial planning
Bombora Advice has appointed Kevin Martin as chairman, who will begin his role in January next year....
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