INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Planners should be more active in promoting the need for trauma insurance, according to world-renowned cardiac surgeon Marius Barnard....

Financial planning

Genetic testing is likely to remain at the forefront of issues facing the life insurance industry over the next decade. Aaron Driver reports on how the major players are ...

Life/Risk

Financial advisers are failing in their compliance duties in selling disability insurance, according to the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

Genetic testing is likely to remain at the forefront of issues facing the life insurance industry over the next decade. Aaron Driver reports on how the major players are ...

Life/Risk

LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....

Superannuation

Educated investors are no longer willing to put up with financial plans which don't meet their needs but advisers have ways to protect themselves as <B>John Wilkinson</B>...

Policy & Regulation

High-taxing State governments could be clawing back some of the benefits provided by the Federal Government tax reforms according to Rod Atfield, head of Mercantile Mutua...

Life/Risk

The number of documented cases of people being refused insurance after being gene-tested has almost doubled since recent publicity about gene-testing according to directo...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based financial planning research and software group PlanTech Consulting has made its first foray into overseas market with a deal in South Africa....

Financial planning

Commissions paid on life insurance products will inevitably move to level com-missions, according to a visiting financial planning expert....

Financial planning

Commissions paid on life insurance products will inevitably move to level com-missions, according to a visiting financial planning expert....

Financial planning

This is supposed to be the information age, but no one has told the financial planning industry. This has to be the industry that has the least information available abou...

Financial planning

IFSA’s first comprehensive financial services conference will kick off on Monday evening, July 19 and run through until 5pm Wednesday July 21 at Melbourne’s Convention Ce...

Financial planning

Last year <I>Money Management</I> published a series of articles outlining the mess surrounding the income protection insurance market. Stuart Engel asked a number of key...

Financial planning

Is risk insurance becoming too risky for insurers?...

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2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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