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The latest Sensis Business Index showed small and medium businesses in the finance and insurance sector remain confident despite overall confidence decline....
Life/Risk
Centrepoint Alliance has signed deals with two major banks to boost the finance facility for its insurance premium funding business claiming it can offer better terms und...
Policy & Regulation
The disallowance of the Future of Financial Advice amendments may hurt consumers who will not be able to access scaled advice and may be forced to change to less suitable...
Life/Risk
Cheap group insurance cover has been used by industry funds to partially erode the client base of financial advisers while shoring up their own member base....
Life/Risk
SMEs will be able to obtain group life cover from MetLife Insurance Ltd that was previously sold through superannuation funds as part of its partnership with insurance br...
Life/Risk
An analysis of the ASIC review of life insurance and advice has pointed to the underlying complexities and the absence of any quick fixes. ...
Financial planning
An ASIC review of general insurance sales has revealed that PDSs are falling short and that insurers are seeking to steer clear of personal advice....
Life/Risk
Suncorp has finished remediating its life and general insurance businesses after breaches that saw the insurer pay back $23 million to customers. ...
Life/Risk
Rice Warner says upfront life commissions can be justified where advisers have done the hard yards on initial advice....
Life/Risk
The number of PI insurance providers is likely to grow but planners have been warned that not every service they provide will be covered....
Life/Risk
Excessive complexity and poor disclosure are the biggest barriers to individuals getting advice on whether they are paying too much for insurance, a head of research said...
Life/Risk
The corporate regulator is not seeking any changes to PI insurance requirements for advisers stating that ‘tinkering’ would not deal with problems related to claims or di...
Superannuation
Dimitri Diamantes canvasses how the Government should approach buy-sell in super and how the industry may respond....
Life/Risk
Legacy IT issues are seeing long-established insurers lose their competitive advantage to new players in the insurance space....
Life/Risk
New research suggests recent surges in group life premiums have ceded an advantage to individually advised products....
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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,...