LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

The financial services arm of Promina, Asteron is aiming to tackle Australia’s under-insurance problem by combining wealth creation and risk insurance into a single platf...

Financial planning

Inflows to the life insurance risk market rose 10.9 per cent to $4.2 billion in the 12 months to June 2004, according to a Plan For Life report....

Life/Risk

Australians are carrying a risk of uninsurance of more than 75 per cent, with women at greatest risk of not being able to meet financial obligations in the case of death ...

Financial planning

Tower’s wealth management business could separately list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) as early as December, pending the outcome of a review of the proposed spli...

Life/Risk

Australia has been identified as having the largest income protection gap (39 per cent) of several developed countries according to findings in a new global mortality pro...

Financial planning

Switzerland-based insurance company Zurich Financial Services has nearly doubled its net income for the first half of 2004 pinning the rise on higher premium income, lowe...

Financial planning

Advisers are looking for simple software, but their needs are often more sophisticated, writes John Wilkinson....

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed its 28 per cent rise in net profit for the financial year just ended to resurgent equity markets, improved general and l...

Financial planning

The financial services industry is bracing itself against the potential crippling cost of having to identify more than 9 million investors ahead of the Federal Government...

Financial planning

Freya Purnell looks at the effect of different advice offerings on the bottom line....

Financial planning

General insurers and life insurance companies will be required to identify, assess and manage potential disruptions to the functioning of their business including bomb th...

Financial planning

From write-downs to shedding staff, it has been a tough couple of years for Tower, but as Ross Kelly reports, things are looking up....

Life/Risk

The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...

Editorial

The chronic underinsurance problem in Australia is a financial disaster waiting to happen, but it does create opportunities for advisers. FREYAPURNELL reports....

Financial planning

Risk insurance group PrefSure Life will cut its ties with up to 1500 financial planners choosing instead to focus on a core group of 45 advisers, saving $3 million in exp...

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