INSURANCE

Policy & Regulation

Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has urged that insurance claims handling be subject to the financial advice rules – something whi...

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Life/Risk

The results of BT’s Cancer Assistance Program, which offers early intervention to clients diagnosed with cancer, have shown that the early help led to better outcomes for...

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Financial planning

The majority of millennials feel confident about their financial future but aren’t prepared for the possibility of unemployment due to injury or illness, new research fro...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has issued a discussion paper canvassing lifting the minimum default levels of insurance inside superannuation as well as including total and perma...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has received a clear message from the Government that it needs to make its Life Insurance Code of Conduct enforceable....

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Features

Major banks and AMP Limited have exited life insurance, significant consolidation has occurred and the Royal Commission has delivered a verdict but, as Mike Taylor writes...

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Life/Risk

TAL Dai-Chi Life Australia has finally finished its acquisition of Suncorp’s Australian life insurance business, announcing this afternoon that the process was complete....

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Tools & guides

Suzie Brown outlines some of the key considerations for financial advisers when making life insurance recommendations and provides an overview of the upcoming legislative...

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People & Products

An independent adviser survey has seen advisers give OnePath’s life insurance underwriting engine an ‘excellent’ rating. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Despite the Australian Law Reform Commissions’ recent recommendations stemming from its Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders, Honan In...

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Financial planning

A Hobart financial planner who was not sufficiently trained, despite holding a Diploma of Financial Planning from Kaplan, or competent to provide financial services has b...

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Life/Risk

AUB Group has announced the acquisition of the remaining 50 per cent shareholding of one of the largest New Zealand’s insurance brokers, BrokerWeb Risk Services....

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Life/Risk

In a message which will resonate with some life insurers, Australia’s general insurers have been warned against allowing outsourced service providers to handle complaints...

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Policy & Regulation

Major consultancy EY has predicted both challenges and opportunities in the financial services industry in 2019 with all sectors facing greater regulatory scrutiny and fu...

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