LIFE INSURANCE

Editorial

While the issue of life insurance will usually crop up at some point in discussions with a client, HELEN TROUP believes that a discussion of risk should cover the well-be...

Financial planning

High profile IFMA executive Sue Laing has resigned after more than a decade developing the life insurance broking and financial planning group....

Financial planning

APIR Systems has received a significant boost to extend its identification system to with a hefty capital injection from the ACT and Federal governments....

Financial planning

The high cost of life insurance transactions will see the global life companies packaging risk products with other products, says Association of Financial Advisers presid...

Life/Risk

Financial planning groups are lining up to launch their own risk insurance master trusts. ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a policy proposal paper seeking comment to remove barriers to fully electronic distribution of li...

Financial planning

Lump sum or pension reasonable benefit limit? Scarcity or abundance? What do you recommend to your clients in relation to superannuation? Grant Abbott puts it to the test...

Financial planning

Three developments in recent weeks point to an elevation of the financial planning industry onto the national political stage....

Financial planning

The Colonial brand is set to disappear from the New Zealand financial services landscape....

Financial planning

Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....

Financial planning

One of Australia’s most established financial planning networks, Deutsche Bank Financial Plan-ning, is up for sale alongside Deutsche Funds Management (DFM)....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a policy proposal paper seeking comment to remove barriers to fully electronic dis-tribution of l...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services strategic alliance manager Rod Hudson has been promoted into the newly created position of national sales manager....

Financial planning

Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....

Financial planning

Australia’s life insurance industry is more than five times as big as its next biggest rival competing to be recognised as the region’s financial services hub...

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