INSURANCE

Financial planning

Possible insurance changes as a result of superannuation fund mergers should be a talking point for advisers to demonstrate their value when it comes to insurance advice....

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Financial planning

NEOS and MLC Life Insurance have released their Encompass Protection retail life insurance offering designed in response to the increasing cost of providing risk advice....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has urged Australians who have lost their life insurance policies due to recent flooding to utilise the FSC’s services to help them find ou...

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Life/Risk

Claims to the Insurance Council of Australia have reached almost 31,000 in a single day in relation to the flood emergency in Queensland and New South Wales....

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Financial planning

The organisation believes a review into professional indemnity insurance is crucial before a compensation scheme of last resort can be filed, in order to identify sources...

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Financial planning

The relationship between an adviser and clients is vital for the life insurance industry and insurers should support those advisers who remain through challenging times....

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People & Products

ClearView Wealth has announced the launch of a new life insurance product series and an integrated life insurance platform....

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Life/Risk

The sale of Westpac Life Insurance Services sees the bank’s exit manufacturing life insurance products and would release capital back to the bank. ...

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People & Products

Insurance profit after tax saw 42.4% growth during FY20 as it exited underperforming products while its wealth business was sold to LGIAsuper....

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Financial planning

There were six main areas the corporate watchdog focused on which led to a $16.5 million increase in costs of regulating the financial advice sector....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has announced a collaborative work with members across the financial services industry to design templates to help enable the implementatio...

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Policy & Regulation

The insurer has dodged questions over the dismal of former CEO Pat Regan, who was let go last year after an investigation into workplace communications....

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Financial planning

Westpac has confirmed that Panorama is amongst the assets under consideration for sale, but it continues to perform for the big banking group....

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Life/Risk

TAL is acknowledging the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s pursuit of charges against in the Federal Court but pointing out that the regulator did not wi...

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Funds management

Challenger’s group assets under management rose by 13% in the first half of the 2021 financial year, with the company declaring a dividend of 9.5 cents per share....

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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