LIFE INSURANCE

Editorial

Since bursting on to the financial services scene in the middle of last year, account aggregators or screen scrapers have been one of the hottest discussion points in the...

Financial planning

The past five years will certainly remembered by financial services historians as the time our big institutions threw off the shackles of their mutual structures and demu...

Financial planning

Dominic Alafaci has won the 2000 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year award after coming runner up for two years in succession. John Wilkinson asks Alafaci the ...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill reforms will have a significant impact on the operations of life insurance agents. Nicole Szollos looks at some of the changes already ...

Financial planning

Jillian Segal examines how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission regulates e-commerce, so consumers can participate with confidence in these new developmen...

Financial planning

More than 70 financial adviser practices have signed up franchise agreements with the Mawson Securities since the group launched in July....

Financial planning

Sealcorp is to ramp up its wrap account service and add screen scraping facilities to the adviserNet online service for advisers....

Financial planning

LIFE insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruling....

Life/Risk

AM Corporation has pulled the plug on its own life insurance company as a part of one of the biggest revamps in the group’s 25 year history....

Life/Risk

LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....

Financial planning

Life insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the Financial Services Reform Bill survives the impasse between the Federal and State Governments....

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual has unveiled a 48 per cent growth in net profit in the year to September 30 to $174 million, thanks to its fast growing funds management and life insura...

Financial planning

Life insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a ruling delivered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ...

Financial planning

The changing face of life insurance can be confusing to those not following the movements in products and suppliers. Doug Scriven takes a look at what has happened in rec...

Life/Risk

Insurance and science are set to collide as genetics moves out of the lab and into the underwriting book. ALAN DOBLE takes a look at the state of play in life insurance a...

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