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Financial planning

Advisers have an opportunity to educate New Zealanders that life insurance is vital, according to the Financial Services Council of New Zealand....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers should not be inadvertently caught up in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s tough new life/risk anti-hawking approach just because ...

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Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority life insurance data has revealed a negative picture of profitability being badly undermined by disability products....

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Financial planning

Women underestimate their life insurance value by 125 per cent ($373,000), while men underestimate it by only 19 per cent ($97,000), on average, according to a study from...

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Superannuation

More than 440 AMP superannuation customers have demanded to have their cancelled insurance cover reinstated, while more than 5,000 supposedly ‘inactive’ and low balance c...

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Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that a significant unintended consequence of the Government’s changes to insurance inside superannuation will be an incre...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has started a consultation process ahead of a proposal to ban unsolicited telephone sales of direct life insurance....

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Superannuation

The commencement date for switching off insurance inside super for low balance accounts should be deferred to 1 October, this year, according to a leading superannuation ...

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Life/Risk

Freedom Insurance Group has announced a belated $33.4 million loss to the Australian Securities Exchange while confirming the exit of its chief executive and the involvem...

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Financial planning

While the creation of a deferred sales model (DSM) to regulate the sale of add-on insurance was explicitly recommended by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne the industry is being...

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Superannuation

Industry superannuation funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has described the Government’s reintroduced legislation impacting insurance inside...

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Financial planning

Australians are losing $6.5 billion on unnecessary costs such as fees and subscriptions, prompting Rest to encourage them to check their bank and superannuation statement...

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Policy & Regulation

Taking a templated approach to financial advice has seen a financial adviser banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commiss...

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Superannuation

As 1 July quickly approaches, consumer interest groups are campaigning hard to remind super fund members with inactive accounts that this is their last week to preserve t...

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Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

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