INSURANCE

Life/Risk

Life insurance industry profits jumped 65 per cent in the December quarter, but there was a significant drop in revenue due to investment losses....

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Financial planning

A former Guardian Financial Planning adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services after it was found she falsified 65 insurance policies to colle...

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Life/Risk

MLC has improved MLC Insurance and MLC Insurance (Super) with a number of product enhancements, and updates to their insurance writing programs....

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Life/Risk

In order to address the growing insurance gap in the self-managed super fund sector, AIA Australia has partnered with Australian Group Insurances to launch an online insu...

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Superannuation

David Shirlow explains how to use insurance to address SMSF property investment liquidity....

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Life/Risk

Different policy proposals are being suggested by the insurance industry to combat churn, but they have not been universally accepted. Who should be responsible for effor...

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Life/Risk

The risk insurance industry has defied all odds and continued to experience strong growth amid economic uncertainty. However, that is not to say the sector has managed to...

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Editorial

The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...

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Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service has admitted it has only minimal specific information about the number of intra-fund advice disputes it handles....

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Editorial

AIA Australia has reported a 21 per cent growth in premiums and a 27 per cent growth of total assets for the year ended 30 November 2011....

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Life/Risk

Evolving web-based technology has helped to create more active and better informed consumers, but the insurance industry has struggled to keep up with this changing deman...

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Superannuation

Mike Mitchell outlines some of the issues investors should consider before establishing or using an SMSF to purchase direct property....

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Editorial

Business risk insurance should be a key component of every risk strategy, but only a fraction of companies are properly insured, writes Jason Bamford....

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Editorial

Col Fullagar examines the topic of pre-existing exclusion clauses in risk insurance policies....

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Financial planning

Midwinter Financial Services has launched a new product - AdviserTECH CPD - which it describes as "a simple, practical online CPD education and compliance solution for fi...

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