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People & Products
TAL has announced the appointment of Mark Joiner as independent chair, following Duncan Boyle’s decision to retire after eight years leading the board....
Features
The industry watchdog has been forced to step in and mandate changes to disability income insurance in a move designed to protect consumers, writes Nina Hendy. ...
Expert Analysis
Advisers play a critical role in supporting the transition to sustainable insurance products, writes Aaron Newman, but the industry needs to support advisers with this tr...
Financial planning
How the industry adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic is proof technology is not changing the role of advisers, according to TAL....
Life/Risk
Total and permanent disability products are next on the list for insurers to look at to ensure they do not become unsustainable like income protection....
Features
The life insurance industry’s losses have stemmed mostly from unsustainable income protection products, Jassmyn Goh writes, but will the new products help end bad habits?...
Financial planning
TAL has launched additional mental health insights to support licensees and financial advisers to manage their mental health. ...
Financial planning
As existing advisers continue to leave, the industry needs to keep promoting the benefits of being an adviser, according to TAL....
Life/Risk
Risk advisers need to ensure their clients know that level premiums are not a guarantee and what to expect when their first-year discounts expire, according to life insur...
People & Products
The life insurer is offering two long-term options to provide benefits to age 65 and a short-term option to over one, two, or five year periods. ...
Life/Risk
The industry needs to work together to move clients in closed income protection insurance products to more sustainable products and to manage the inforce book, according ...
Expert Analysis
The principles of mutual companies are still evident in our superannuation system, writes Andrew Howard, but more can be done to improve life insurance within super....
Life/Risk
Risk specialist advisers will have a tough time growing new business as the life insurance market continues to shrink and the cost of advice continues to rise....
Features
As TAL acquires Westpac Life Insurance, experts believe international ownership of life insurers is no bad thing as it will bring expertise and specialisation but a small...
Life/Risk
The sale of Westpac Life Insurance Services sees the bank’s exit manufacturing life insurance products and would release capital back to the bank. ...
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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...