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Tower Financial Services Group will kill off brands including Austrust, National Insurance and South Pacific Insurance and rebadge them under the Tower name in its ongoin...
Financial planning
Colonial’s Australian Financial Services division has reported a profit of $212 million, up 38 per cent, for the year ending December 31, 1998....
Financial planning
Microsoft's assault on financial services distribution has continued with the signing of agreements with some of the biggest players in the US market....
Financial planning
Recent reforms of the Swedish pension system may provide some answers to New Zealand's retirement savings dilemma, according to head of the Investment Savings and Insuran...
Financial planning
A new intermediary distribution channel appears to be opening up with the announcement by Amway that it is to distribute life insurance through its sales network....
Life/Risk
1st: Suncorp 2nd: Tower Life 3rd: NRMA...
Financial planning
The trend towards intermediary-based distribution in the US is gaining momentum, with more than three-quarters of new money invested over the past year in mutual funds co...
Funds management
A new non-profit professional association set to launch this week reflects convergence between the life insurance and fund management sectors....
Financial planning
With three conferences on client portfolio management systems scheduled for Sydney over the next week or so, the master trust versus wrap account war appears to be escala...
Life/Risk
Difficulties in matching product features with client needs in complex areas of risk coverage like trauma mean advisers should seek specialist alliances, writes Pauline F...
Life/Risk
Leading insurer AMP Life will launch a series of workshops and seminars over the next few weeks to help financial advisers to better understand the risk insurance needs o...
Editorial
Disability insurance in Australia has reached a crisis point largely thanks to the under-pricing of products carrying certain unsustainable features, argues Mark Gallaghe...
Financial planning
Amidst all the talk of mergers and acquisitions in the life insurance industry, it’s easy to lose sight of the strength and size of the industry in Australia. ...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...