TPD
Life/Risk
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has criticised calls for private life insurers to be allowed a greater role in worker rehabilitation claiming it is part of a Finan...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed that many advisers are still wondering why they have been entangled in the Tax Agent Service Act regime....
Features
Col Fullagar reviews ASIC’s life insurance industry report and finds there are some serious issues in the claims management protocols of potentially all insurers....
Life/Risk
ASIC has examined 60,000 documents as part of its CommInsure investigation and will deliver its findings by the end of the month....
Life/Risk
Life insurers who decline up to 37 per cent of TPD claims should have been named by ASIC, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers....
Tools & guides
Alena Miles looks at the importance of key person insurance in a business and how it protects the business if there is a key person death, disability, or a serious illnes...
Policy & Regulation
The latest Four Corners report detailing problematic TPD claims-handling have served to reinforce the value of good life/risk advisers....
Tools & guides
Holding personal insurance through super may be worth considering for the right client, and advisers need to be aware of not only the benefits but also the tax consequenc...
Financial planning
TAL launches initiative for cover to be increased online, without underwriting or paperwork....
Life/Risk
Insurers need to help claimants in retraining to get back to work and off claim, Sunsuper believes....
Features
SMSF trustees and advisers must review requirements of the treatment of insurance within their funds annually, taking into account changes around the SIS Act 1993, Janine...
People & Products
AIA announces changes and discounts relating to its Priority Protection product set as well as a range of discounts associated with the product....
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
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....
Life/Risk
To help see an industry response to LIF that goes beyond adviser remuneration, Zurich has reduced its term and TPD rates in the lead up to the new regime....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...