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The life insurance industry is getting killed thanks to customers being ignored when they ask questions, an Integrity Resolutions principal believes. ...
Life/Risk
The Life Insurance Code of Practice includes group insurers, contrary to some reports, according to TAL....
Financial planning
Challenger has announced it would be providing annuity products through AMP’s platforms, and to provider of Australian dollar annuity and life insurance products in Japan...
Awards
Keristi Price from Sunsuper was awarded the Life Insurance award at the 2016 Women in Financial Services awards....
Life/Risk
Centrepoint has launched a medical service to improve the underwriting experience for clients and advisers....
Life/Risk
A Money Management survey has revealed overwhelming support for planners to be unconstrained by APLs with respect to the selection of insurance products....
Life/Risk
MLC Life Insurance, in partnership with National Australia Bank, has expanded the distribution of its life insurance product to 760 branches across Australia. ...
Features
Traditional wisdom on life insurance has been tried but apparently has not succeeded. Col Fullagar outlines 20 insurer commitments that approved lists should be predicate...
Editorial
There will always be a big question mark over whether churn was a real problem or a handy political lever, but the outcome represents the exercise of pragmatic politics....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will scrutinise non-advised life/risk sales as a central element of the second stage of its examination of claims han...
Life/Risk
Life insurers who decline up to 37 per cent of TPD claims should have been named by ASIC, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers....
Life/Risk
The Government should ban sales commissions on life insurance to better protect consumers, Industry Super Australia said....
Financial planning
The AFA has welcomed the Government’s move to introduce the life insurance remuneration bill to the lower house today, particularly the move to treat life insurance attai...
Policy & Regulation
The obligations flowing from the FSC’s Life Insurance Code of Conduct may extend beyond its members with the Federal Government signalling it wants the code to carry ASIC...
Life/Risk
The Life Insurance Code of Practice falls short of reasonable community expectations about how insurers should behave, an insurance lawyer believes....
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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....