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The National Finance Industry Training Advisory Body (NFITAB) is embarking on an ambitious scheme to collate and rank every education program across the financial service...
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It may have begun as an afterthought, but today van Eyk Research is leading the pack. Ross Kelly reports....
Financial planning
Risk insurance advisers have thrown their support behind a push for the adoption of a common risk insurance applicaton form being spearheaded by Associated Planners risk ...
Financial planning
Zurich Financial Services Australia is launching new client-focused risk tools aimed at supporting advisers as part of its broader push into the Australian life risk mark...
Financial planning
The financial services industry is bracing itself against the potential crippling cost of having to identify more than 9 million investors ahead of the Federal Government...
Life/Risk
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman David Knott has been recruited by the Insurance Council of Australia to assess public submissions on the ...
Financial planning
From write-downs to shedding staff, it has been a tough couple of years for Tower, but as Ross Kelly reports, things are looking up....
Life/Risk
The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...
Editorial
The chronic underinsurance problem in Australia is a financial disaster waiting to happen, but it does create opportunities for advisers. FREYAPURNELL reports....
Financial planning
Risk insurance group PrefSure Life will cut its ties with up to 1500 financial planners choosing instead to focus on a core group of 45 advisers, saving $3 million in exp...
Financial planning
Inflows for the life insurance risk market have risen 11.1 per cent – from $3.7 billion to $4.1 billion – for the 12 months to March 2004, according to Plan for Life figu...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained interim orders in the Federal Court against former insurance agent, Domenic Romeo prohibiting him from r...
Financial planning
Under certain circumstances during an income protection claim, insurers may request proof of earnings from the claimant, says Col Fullagar....
Financial planning
The Federal government will channel an extra $11 million into the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority over the next financial year, financed through widespread lev...
Financial planning
Professional Investment Services’ 90-day business and activity model that ran from March through to May has boosted the revenue of participating firms by up to 50 per cen...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...