The efforts of many clients and their life/risk advisers to write Agreed Value income protection cover before the 1 April deadline were stymied by the job COVID-19 job lo...
Financial Services Council member life insurers won’t deny total and permanent disability claims for those who lost employment because of COVID-19....
Private equity firm, TA Associates has signed a strategic growth investment in commercial insurance broker, Honan Insurance Group....
Consumers of all ages are adopting a “millennial mindset” and established insurers must digitise and draw upon partners to retain market share from bigtech entrants. ...
Life insurers have responded to a call to arms from Synchron to demonstrate how they are protecting customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
The last vestiges of the Commonwealth Bank’s involvement in life insurance has ended with its exit from its 80% stake in an Indonesian life business....
Amid suggestions by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority that the Activities of Daily Living regime is “very tough”, the major insurers have flagged key changes ...
Life insurance commissions should be retained in the life/risk industry with no change to their structure, according to major insurer ClearView....
Data needs to be collected on the fees paid to lawyers on group life insurance claims, according to the Association of Financial Advisers....
New research has revealed that many Australians would ditch their life insurance cover while maintaining house and car insurance if faced with financial distress....
Life insurers should be prepared to go further than their own Life Insurance Code of Conduct to help clients impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Australia...
The Financial Planning Association says the advocacy efforts of financial advisers on behalf of clients can often impact the dispute data collected by the Australian Prud...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...