INSURANCE

Editorial

Michael Browne explains the cost of debilitating injuries, and how the right level of insurance can save a lot of heartache....

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Financial planning

AXA Australia has announced details of a new North solution that guarantees income for life, addressing the problem of Australians outliving their retirement savings....

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Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank reports a reasonable March quarter despite declines in FUA....

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Financial planning

Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road (YBR) will partner with technology provider OneVue to offer Australian retail investors a new universal managed account (UMA)....

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Life/Risk

Macquarie enhances insurance offering to suit white collars....

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Life/Risk

The risk insurance industry is fraught with complexities. Angela Faherty takes a look at the challenges facing the sector, and how it can work to better educate consumers...

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Tools & guides

Holding large value illiquid assets in a SMSF could prove problematic when a trust member dies. Deborah Wixted explains the obligations and options trustees and their fin...

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Superannuation

Retirement product innovation around annuities, guaranteed products and 'life stage' products will continue as advisers and their clients increasingly demand better post-...

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Life/Risk

Zurich has announced two new insurance products for financial services, which the company says provides the broadest specialist financial services insurance coverage avai...

Financial planning

The acquisition of Aviva has helped NAB's half-year bottom line but failed to obscure a 21.4 per cent decline in net profit....

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Life/Risk

Regulators need to tread carefully if they consider extending the proposed ban on commissions to risk insurance....

Financial planning

A strong recovery in its wealth divisions has helped drive Westpac to a robust half-year result....

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Financial planning

AMP is unveiling its new risk offering, which will improve choice and flexibility. It will be unveiled at a series of nationwide adviser seminars from May 11....

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Financial planning

Questions about the future direction of one of Australia’s biggest, non-institutionally owned dealer groups may have been resolved last Friday, but PIS' merger partner co...

Editorial

The insurance industry has a chronically high cost structure, is structurally flawed, and carries a bias against level premium policies, writes Robert Keavney. However, r...

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