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The latest data from research house Dexx&r has revealed the degree to which a cessation of direct life insurance sales has hit the bottom lines of the major life insurers...

Life/Risk

Freedom Insurance Group has entered a voluntary suspension on the Australian Securities Exchange, acknowledging it is not positioned to detail its financial position....

Life/Risk

One of the companies adversely referenced in the Royal Commission, Freedom Insurance Group, has entered a trading halt on the Australian Securities Exchange pending an an...

Life/Risk

The Bank of Queensland has terminated the sale of its St Andrews’ Insurance to Freedom....

Life/Risk

Freedom Insurance Group has declared it will not be recommencing sales of life products as it deals with commissions-related liquidity issues and the reality of a client ...

Outsider

Outsider sends a big yuletide shout out to former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia boss, Pauline Vamos, for taking on what might possibly be one of the bi...

Life/Risk

Within two months of the Banking Royal Commission’s insurance hearings decimating Freedom Insurance, its chief executive, Craig Orton, has announced he will step down for...

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