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Former director of insurance broker offers enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
Life/Risk
Risk commissions paid to advisers have been under attack for some time. If they were to be completely eliminated, however, what would be a viable alternative? Col Fullaga...
Financial planning
Some planners are worried that PI requirements risk compromising best interest allocations....
Financial planning
Financial planning licensees need to take a close look at their Approved Product Lists (APLs) to ensure they are sufficiently broad, according to Minter Ellison partner R...
People & Products
Melissa Crawford has joined dealer group Securitor as national manager, insurance....
Financial planning
Business confidence in the finance and insurance industry remained steady despite an overall decline as 2012 wound down, according to Roy Morgan industry communications d...
On-going insurance risks have been identified in the Government's proposals to automatically consolidate superannuation accounts....
Life/Risk
Risk premium inflows and sales have once again achieved double-digit growth, with TAL and CommInsure emerging as success stories of 2012, according to Plan for Life figur...
Editorial
Mike Taylor argues that if financial planners are to follow a template for becoming a profession, they should choose medicine over the law....
Life/Risk
Pricing structures for the risk insurance market will continue to converge over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries Risk Insurance Market Projections Re...
Superannuation
Some SMSF compliance rules are discriminatory, lack logic and are unnecessary, according to Chan & Naylor's Ken Raiss....
Editorial
Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...
Life/Risk
TAL has become the first Australian life insurer to sign on to the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance....
Editorial
The Financial Services Council's position on life insurance churn proved controversial, attracting criticism from the likes of Synchron's Don Trapnell....
Life/Risk
Life insurer AIA Australia has launched its Priority Protection for Platform Investors product on Asgard's Personal Choice Private platform....
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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,...