Is the regulator right about life/risk?
Is the Australian Securities and Investments Commission right about the continuing level of non-compliant advice in the life/risk sector? That is a major question which will debated at this year’s Money Management Risk Breakfast in Sydney on 19 October.
A panel which includes practicing risk advisers, dealer group heads and insurance company chief executives will discuss the continuing regulatory scrutiny of the sector, the roll-out of the Life Insurance Framework and the implications flowing from the code of conduct.
As well, Money Management together with research house DEXX&R will present the annual Adviser Choice Risk Awards with the finalists being named as:
Term and TPD Products 2017
ClearView, OnePath and MLC Insurance
Trauma Products 2017
BT, MLC Insurance and OnePath
Disability Income Products 2017
MLC, TAL and CLearView
Business Overhead Products 2017
ClearView, MLC and BT
For insurance products inside the super, the finalists are:
Inside Super Individual (Guaranteed Renewable) Term and TPD Rider 2017
Zurich, ClearView and MLC Life
Inside Super Disability Income Product 2017
BT, ClearView and MLC Life
Public Offer Super Funds (Group Policy Benefits)
Term and TPD Benefits 2017
First State Super, UniSuper and ING Direct.
Public Offer Super Funds Disability Income 2017
Australian Catholic Super, ING Direct and Kinetic Super
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