Col Fullagar points to push towards advice-based approach to life/risk via a truly wholesale risk insurance premium....

Mike Taylor reflects that 2015 was a year of policy challenges for the financial services industry, many of which will continue into 2016....

Just under two-thirds of risk advisers consider themselves prepared for next year’s Life Insurance Framework changes....

Risk advisers told that when they switch to fees from commissions they need to demonstrate their value as an adviser....

Hybrid commissions may remove perceptions of bias in adviser recommendations, but it will not boost advice quality, the FPA argues....

The FPA said the recent life/risk debate focused on remuneration rather than the quality of advice as it launched an advice guide....

The Life Insurance Framework and other key issues are on the agenda when key planner groups meet with the new Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer this week....

Life insurers need to innovate, rather than slashing commissions to advisers, if they want create a more sustainable model, an insurance comparison website chief believes...

Advisers transitioning to the new life/risk remuneration models were in for short-term pain but could be paid more commissions in the long run. ...

Life Insurer AIA Australia has appointed five new distribution team members to bolster adviser support resources before the transition to the new Life Insurance Framework...

Advisers must take advantage of the new Prime Minister and lobby for change in the clawback provisions of the Life Insurance Framework, Synchron said....

New research confirms that the way income protection and TPD claims are handled are crucial to long-term outcomes....

Life insurers told to properly define the nature of life/risk lapses or cop shorter responsibility period....

The Association of Financial Advisers and consultants claim life/risk advisers may actually see advantages in the new post-Trowbridge hybrid remuneration environment....