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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...
Financial planning
Inflows for the life insurance risk market have risen 11.1 per cent – from $3.7 billion to $4.1 billion – for the 12 months to March 2004, according to Plan for Life figu...
Financial planning
The Federal government will channel an extra $11 million into the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority over the next financial year, financed through widespread lev...
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....