INSURANCE

Financial planning

Planners are switching insurers at record levels, while many advisers are seeking additional support to expand their life insurance advice....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has said its role is to endorse, not enforce industry codes of conduct with enforcement being a role for industry ass...

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Tech

MetLife Australia has launched digital claims tracker to allow claimants to manage and track their claims....

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Life/Risk

A new whitepaper has outlined an integral role for life/risk advisers in an increasingly digital age with insurers placing them in the online mix....

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Life/Risk

The insurance in super code draft has made a down payment towards the reforms needed, Maurice Blackburn believes....

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Financial planning

A senior parliamentarian has quizzed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on whether insurers have simply converted the payment of shelf space fees to ‘tr...

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Financial planning

Big insurer TAL has confirmed the scale of direct life/risk sales and the nature of the limited underwriting provided to such policies....

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Tech

The 2017 World Insurance Report released today by Capgemini and Efma has touted the importance of innovation within the insurance industry....

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Life/Risk

TAL has launched an education course to help advisers better understand the category that represents the largest claims category, cancer....

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Superannuation

Auto-consolidation of multiple superannuation accounts can have significant unintended consequences including denying fund members access to crucial insurance cover, acc...

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Superannuation

Superannuation fund members are being ill-served by the current group superannuation regime and should be made to opt-in, according to insurer, ClearView....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that the pool of advisers at risk of churning life/risk policies is as few as 50 people....

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Superannuation

Industry superannuation fund Vision Super has told the Productivity Commission that the banks are ‘scandal-ridden’ and cannot be trusted with respect to insurance inside ...

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Life/Risk

ANZ has today announced the release of its new income secure essentials and severity trauma insurance covers....

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