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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 ...
Financial planning
The latest report of the Banking Code Compliance Monitoring Committee has revealed that the number of complaints relating to financial advice was barely discernible when ...
Financial planning
NEOS Life has appointed financial technology and infrastructure company, Sargon, as the new trustee of its Super Plan....
Life/Risk
APRA figures have shown an 11.5 per cent year-on-year rise in the Australian life insurance industry’s net policy revenue to $17.9 billion in the September 2018 quarter....
Awards
In the fifteenth year of the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, MLC Life has maintained its top place on the podium as the Risk Company of the Year for 2...
Funds management
Australian dividends were the weakest in the developed world with payouts falling 2.2 per cent, according to Janus Henderson....
Expert Analysis
Delays, both unreasonable and not, are entrenched deeply in the insurance claims process. Col Fullagar outlines why these delays occur and the deep damage they can cause ...
People & Products
OnePath has won the over Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Beddoes Institute 2018 Consumer Choice Award, with ClearView coming in second place....
Financial planning
While annual reviews with financial advisers are the key to client and business success, only half of advisers are actually conducting them....
Superannuation
The AIST has welcomed an announcement from the Federal Opposition that it will move to amend key measures in the insurance in superannuation package now before Parliament...
Superannuation
The Government has agreed to make an exception of young and low balance superannuation fund members working in high-risk occupations from its opt-in legislation....
Life/Risk
Shifting community standards and expectations are driving eight new trends in life insurance which may cost policyholders over $1 billion, according to a new report....
Life/Risk
It will be early next year before Suncorp completes the sale of its life insurance business to TAL....
Policy & Regulation
Urgent reform is needed to prevent insurers unfairly denying claims, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance. ...
Life/Risk
The Australian Lawyers Alliance wants the Royal Commission to inject more transparency into insurance within superannuation to create awareness of sub-standard policy ter...
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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,...