LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

The Australian population may be under-insured, reports Ben Abbott, but what’s more, Australians’ appetite for insurance appears to be lacklustre....

Life/Risk

Discussing risk insurance with clients is becoming a must do, but as Michael Richardson points out, many advisers are new to writing risk insurance and could face problem...

Financial planning

When it comes to planning the distribution of their estate, most parents are keen to treat their children equally. But how do you do that? Michael Schneider shares his id...

Financial planning

Master trust provider Netwealth has added a life insurance product to the range it has available through its Superannuation Master Fund, joining what seems to be a growin...

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank has posted a net profit after tax of $2.012 billion, a drop of 24 per cent from last year, with funds management doing little to boost the bank’s re...

Life/Risk

The long term profit outlook for the life insurance market will remain poor for the immediate future as it remains linked to the low performance of equity markets and sad...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have accepted enforceable undertakings from AM Corpo...

Financial planning

The Joint Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations against disclosure of commissions by risk advisers have been branded a “disgrace” and condemned by virtually all sides...

Life/Risk

Australian Unity has restructured its life insurance operations, including its bond products, and has spun to divisions out into a new company called Australian Unity Inv...

Life/Risk

Superannuation insurance premiums accounted for the lion’s share of total life office revenue received during the March quarter 2003, according to the Australian Prudenti...

Financial planning

In 1999, Westpac Financial Planning & Advice (Westpac) which ranked fifth in the Money Management Fastest Growing Dealer Groups Survey, had 570 advisers....

Financial planning

Paul Resnik goes in search of some of the answers to the problems currently facing the financial planning profession....

Financial planning

The ANZ Banking Group will roll out its own version of ING’s OneAnswer to its 320 bank based financial advisers....

Financial planning

Superannuation makes up 87 per cent of all life office assets and accounts for 88 per cent of premiums as at December 2002, according to new statistics from the Australia...

Financial planning

Former Challenger chief executive Bill Ireland has marked his return to the industry with a series of changes at his new venture, Australian Assets Corporation, proposing...

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