LIF

Financial planning

Federal minister, Kelly O’Dwyer, will seek to re-introduce the LIF legislation into Parliament this Thursday, but she stressed the Government did not want to add to the u...

Life/Risk

LIF will not increase insurer profit

The LIF reforms might boost the capital position of a life insurer but would not increase profits, BTFG said....

Policy & Regulation

LIF legislation will end churn – O’Dwyer

The Government's legislation underpinning the Life Insurance Framework will enter Parliament next week with the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer...

Life/Risk

LIF opponents risk total life/risk commissions ban

Financial services lawyer, Claire Wivell-Plater is warning opponents of the LIF that their obstinacy is risking a total ban on life/risk commissions....

Financial planning

AFA welcomes delayed LIF start date

The delayed LIF start date of 2018 will allow self-employed advisers more time to prepare their businesses for the significant reduction in initial commissions, the AFA b...

Life/Risk

Have your say on the LIF

Have your say on the LIF by completing Money Management's Life/Risk survey, and then hear the outcomes debated at our annual Life/Risk breakfast. ...

Financial planning

Proxy forms define AFA EGM battlelines

The AFA board is telling its members the LICG’s proposed resolution to ensure the AFA opposed the Life Insurance Framework legislation for three years would substantially...

Financial planning

Sentry Group centralises back office

Sentry Group has teamed up with fintech provider, Intiger Asset Management, to provide a centralised back office administration and para planning solution to its advisers...

Tools & guides

Short-comings of traditional wisdom

In part one of a two-part article, Col Fullagar will consider an alternative way to achieve Trowbridge's suggested reforms for life insurance companies, and in so doing s...

Editorial

No unscrambling the LIF omelette

There can be no doubting how many life/risk advisers remain aggrieved by the LIF outcome, but bi-partisan Parliamentary support means there is no unscrambling the omelett...

Financial planning

LIF reforms agreed to under duress

Advisers and adviser associations agreed to life insurance framework reforms under duress, while the reforms failed to address insurers’ commercial imperatives, the LICG ...