TAL

Financial planning

Advisers who complete three modules and assessment tasks through the TAL Risk Academy will be provided credit for the Estate Planning and Risk Management Strategies unit ...

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Life/Risk

The life insurer supports the Government’s plan announced in the Budget to develop a streamlined mechanism to transfer life insurance customers from old legacy products t...

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Expert Analysis

With claims handling moving into a front-line service, it is vital for the insurance industry to balance digitisation with human empathy, writes Jenny Oliver....

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Features

Oksana Patron examines what investors might gain or lose when it comes to investing in those products with a guaranteed income stream....

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Life/Risk

TAL is acknowledging the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s pursuit of charges against in the Federal Court but pointing out that the regulator did not wi...

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Life/Risk

Big insurer, TAL has been found guilty in the Federal Court of breaching its duty of utmost good faith under the Insurance Contracts Act with respect to an income protect...

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People & Products

The course will run until the end of March 2021 which will offer advisers training in estate planning for clients....

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Features

Oksana Patron checks how COVID-19 has changed Australians’ thinking about superannuation and their own retirement and what lies ahead for product and solutions providers....

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Features

From the implementation of the FASEA regime through to the recommendations of the Royal Commission, Mike Taylor writes, a lot had changed before the Australian Securities...

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Financial planning

The life insurer will virtually continue its FASEA Exam Masterclass through the TAL Risk Academy....

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People & Products

Greg Clarke has been appointed to the newly-created role of director of institutional solutions, linking the institutional business, marketing and investment divisions....

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Life/Risk

Suncorp has denied the existence of entrenched problems with respect to its total and permanent disability insurance offering but has nonetheless initiated a comprehensiv...

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has expanded its life insurance approved product list and extended it across all its planning licensees....

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Life/Risk

Fixed term level premiums will give more certainty for clients and will become the norm in the future but there has not been a proper level premium for a fixed term produ...

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds need the ability to deliver a wider range of financial advice to members, according to a roundtable....

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