Life insurance industry profits jumped 65 per cent in the December quarter, but there was a significant drop in revenue due to investment losses....
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...
MLC has improved MLC Insurance and MLC Insurance (Super) with a number of product enhancements, and updates to their insurance writing programs....
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...
David Shirlow explains how to use insurance to address SMSF property investment liquidity....
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...
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...
The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...
The Financial Ombudsman Service has admitted it has only minimal specific information about the number of intra-fund advice disputes it handles....
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....
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...
Mike Mitchell outlines some of the issues investors should consider before establishing or using an SMSF to purchase direct property....
Business risk insurance should be a key component of every risk strategy, but only a fraction of companies are properly insured, writes Jason Bamford....
Col Fullagar examines the topic of pre-existing exclusion clauses in risk insurance policies....
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...
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,...