If insurers were made to drop underwriting policies at the time of claim could they accept the accompanying commercial pain?...
Mike Taylor writes that in a delicately-balanced House of Representatives there is no guarantee the Government can continue to deflect pressure for a banking Royal Commis...
The days of the major banks competing for major wealth management assets are gone due to a combination of indifferent financial results and regulatory and reputational ri...
With the passage of the Professional Standards legislation, the major employers have already set about de-risking their planning exposures, Mike Taylor writes....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has left Federal Parliamentarians in no doubt that it has concerns about the compatibility of vertical integration wi...
Was the life insurance industry ever really guilty of “excessive” churn or was churn a means to a politically-motivated end?...
Mike Taylor writes that accountant licensing has thus far proved to be the revolution which has not quite happened but the clock is still ticking. ...
The financial services industry is facing another year of uncertainty but there will be opportunities for it to become the master of its own destiny....
There can be no more grievous indictment of a service provider than that they continually charged for a service that was never provided....
There have long been accusations that industry funds have been the beneficiaries of generous rebate arrangements from group insurers and both the Productivity Commission ...
The Government’s creation of an independent standards body will alter the dynamics of the financial planning industry and create a new hierarchy. ...
Mike Taylor writes that ASIC must deal in the complex realities of insurance claims handling, not the headline-making perceptions....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...