INSURANCE

Accounting

Dealer group My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist package for accountants, which it claims will go beyond the proposed legislation....

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Financial planning

Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service jumped in the first quarter of this year, while three quarters of resolved cases were by agreement rather than FOS decision....

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Superannuation

SMSF trustees are using CFDs to become more strategic with their portfolios and to ensure recent downturns are not adversely affecting their retirement goals, according t...

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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar suggests that the need for an underlying logic in any risk insurance recommendation, including TPD, is an important component of safe advice....

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Life/Risk

Direct life insurance will account for 40 per cent of all new insurance business by 2021, according to Plan For Life data....

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Financial planning

A former director of a South Australian insurance broker has appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on 88 charges of dishonesty following an investigation by ASIC....

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People & Products

Superannuation insurance provider Beazley has appointed a new head of finance for Asia-Pacific and an Australian claims manager....

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Financial planning

Despite the rise of direct channels, financial planners are better poised to engage customers about life insurance, according to industry executives....

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Editorial

TAL’s Jim Minto argues that while the current economic climate is continuing to worry consumers, now more than ever is precisely the time financial advisers and insurers ...

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Funds management

New analysis from the US suggests investors are insisting hedge funds insure against the untimely demise of their investment gurus....

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Financial planning

A former adviser for Guardian Financial Planning has pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court to falsifying 65 insurance applications in order to collect commissi...

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Superannuation

SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery believes the new licensing regime set to replace the accountants' exemption would create a bigger role for the association....

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Superannuation

The SMSF Academy's Aaron Dunn looks at some of the changes flowing from the Stronger Super reforms and how those changes will affect SMSFs....

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Editorial

Given the slowest share market recovery in years, many investors will wait it out before diving back in. But taking the same approach with asset allocation in superannuat...

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Editorial

Susanna Khouri believes the Trio Capital debacle has highlighted the need for better mechanisms to compensate investors for loss....

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