INSURANCE

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Alena Miles looks at the importance of key person insurance in a business and how it protects the business if there is a key person death, disability, or a serious illnes...

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Life/Risk

Those pushing for an EGM to change the constitution of the Association of Financial Advisers have fallen well short of the requisite five per cent of members....

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Financial planning

The AIOFP has weighed into the constitutional debate within the AFA, arguing it is about breaking the shackles of institutional manipulation....

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Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data has revealed disability insurance as a continuing problem for Australia’s insurers....

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People & Products

QBE Insurance has appointed its former European COO, Kathryn Lisson, as a non-executive director and chair of a new operations and technology committee....

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former NSW insurance company director, Timothy Pratten, from providing financial services and from engaging in credit activities....

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Life/Risk

The Productivity Commission saw insurance as a key issue impacting superannuation fund member returns and intended examining the value for money actually delivered....

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Life/Risk

A permanent shift in insurance buying behaviour favoured mutuals over stock-based insurers, according to Swiss Re....

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Life/Risk

Financial services group, Omniwealth, has launched Omniwealth Insurance Services to assist its business clients with their insurance services....

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Life/Risk

Petplan Australasia Pty Ltd is updating its Petplan advertising after customers were exposed to misleading insurance information....

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Life/Risk

The new Life Insurance Framework appears to be causing consolidation in the life/risk sector as single adviser operations feel the squeeze....

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People & Products

The employment of two new senior staff will strengthen innovation, according to the Australian arm of global insurer, MetLife....

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Financial planning

ANZ will launch its Grow Wrap after partnering with Macquarie in February, and will pilot a health and wellness pilot to relieve insurance costs for clients. ...

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Superannuation

Super funds need to address the flaws in their insurance policies, Blueleaf Consulting believes....

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Features

Life insurance solutions should be linked to impacts, not causation, and should provide benefits based on the claimant's outcome of an illness rather than just on the con...

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