The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released a new draft document outlining how financial advisers and licensees will need to seek variations to thei...
Life advisers may have thought commissions attaching to BT Life policies sold before 2013 were safely grandfathered. They were wrong....
Placing consumers and their treating doctors at the centre of the decision-making process will improve outcomes and reduce the claims costs for life insurers to keep prem...
A Federal Opposition frontbencher has been warned against misinterpreting Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data to suggest that group TPD insurance delivers bet...
The Life Code Compliance Committee is to be given the power to impose sanctions on life insurers if they fail to live up to their obligations under the Financial Services...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lifted the lid on the underlying methodology of its Life Insurance Framework review. ...
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...
New research from KPMG has confirmed the degree to which COVID-19 impacted the Australian life insurance industry already on the back foot and facing revenue and profitab...
St Andrew’s insurance is set to become an independent player in the Australian market after being sold by the Bank of Queensland to investment player, Farmcove Investment...
MLC Life’s new chief of life insurance, Sean McCormack, has acknowledged the adverse impacts of the company’s technology changes but says the company is accepting its res...
The newly-raised capital will be used to support the expansion of operations and continued development of its digital-led insurance offering....
Insurance claims for mental health injuries have risen by 80% since 2017, according to Allianz, with firms now seeking to address mental health in the workplace....
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,...