The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Federal Court case against major insurer, TAL, will test the circumstances and extent to which life insurers can ga...
Major life insurer TAL has been taken to court by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on charges relating to issues raised during the Royal Commission in...
TAL has announced the key changes around its two business lines: individual life and group life and investments....
People come from all walks of life and a strong focus on diversity and inclusivity makes for a stronger workplace, according to TAL’s chief people and culture officer, Ce...
Money Management and Super Review awarded 12 women and an employer at the annual Women in Financial Services Awards....
The Australian life insurance sector has never been more dominated by the big five life insurers but sales are decreasing, according to the latest data from Dexx&r....
Advisers might not be looking forward to fulfilling the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education requirements, but just like financial planning itself, ...
Life insurer TAL is to launch a mental health course for financial advisers to help boost their mental wellbeing amid the stressful Royal Commission changes....
Life insurer MLC Life Insurance has hired Sean Williamson to focus on growth opportunities for group distribution....
Life insurance specialist TAL has added additional Risk Academy Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) Exam Masterclasses, to keep up with adviser deman...
Serious questions have been raised about whether the Government even understood the existence of hundreds of thousands of ‘risk-only’ superannuation fund members when it ...
Customers’ needs are at the heart of the innovation in life and total and permanent disability insurance that last year’s Women in Financial Services Life Executive of th...
New sales of individual life risk have reached their lowest value over the last five years, falling 11 per cent from $1.3 billion to $1.1 billion over the 12 months to Ma...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s latest Life Insurance Institution-level statistics publication has managed to paint a picture of the industry as it was u...
Super funds could face legal problems once group insurance for inactive accounts is switched off on 1 July, as members who were unaware they were losing their cover may s...
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...