The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a policy proposal paper seeking comment to remove barriers to fully electronic dis-tribution of l...
Australian Unity has stepped up its direct distribution efforts with the announcement it is to offer insurance through Telstra’s Web site....
Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....
John Hibberd has drawn the curtains on his three year tenure as president of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA). ...
The shortage of good advisers has hit RACV Financial Services (RACVFS) turnover during the last financial year, says executive general manager sales and marketing Phil Tu...
Australia’s life insurance industry is more than five times as big as its next biggest rival competing to be recognised as the region’s financial services hub...
New Zealand credit unions may soon follow their Australian counterparts and lose a century old tax exemption....
Risk products that don’t pay commissions – you’ve got to be joking. Refunding trail commissions – too hard....
The shortage of good advisers has hit RACV Financial Services (RACVFS) turnover during the last financial year, says executive general manager sales and marketing Phil Tu...
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell director of marketing and client service Chris Ryan will take on the role of head of business development in asset management with ANZ Funds Mana...
FORMER insurance and superannuation agent, Ivan Thomas Merlin of Ballarat, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, after being charged with larceny and charges rel...
Insurance brokers must act now to implement a compliance infrastructure to meet the demands of the ASIC policy statement 161 according to Paul Harding-Davis head of the F...
Chase Manhattan Bank has forked out nearly $60 billion to acquire JP Morgan in a stock swap valued....
A national savings summit may sound somewhat grandiose but I believe it is now vital to Australia that the bell should be rung....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...