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The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has again pointed to the inadequacy of professional indemnity insurance, as unpaid compensation from its rulings approaches $15 mill...

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Financial planning

Product manufacturers need to ensure their services and compliance procedures are up to standard, with ASIC set to take a hard-line approach in 2015, according to legal e...

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Financial planning

FOS has reduced its backlog of cases but unpaid determinations have climbed for the third reporting period in a row to a record high....

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Life/Risk

A recent court case sheds light on the details advisers need to consider when replacing an insurance policy, Col Fullagar writes. ...

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Financial planning

Consumers would be better served if financial planners and risk advisers were required to hold separate licences, Synchron director, Don Trapnell, believes....

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Life/Risk

While most surveyed Australians rate life insurance as important, little more than half actually take out a policy, according to a TAL survey. ...

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Financial planning

New research suggests few superannuation fund members have any real idea of the life insurance they hold inside super....

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People & Products

TAL parent, Dai-ichi, announces North American and Asia-Pacific expansion plans....

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Financial planning

ISA has reiterated its calls for advisers to move with haste to a fee-for-service model, with all commission-based fees banned, including on life insurance....

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Life/Risk

APRA warns life insurers they need to take responsibility for the manner in which their products are sold....

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Life/Risk

Synchron’s Don Trapnell urges risk advisers to counter worst elements of Trowbridge interim report, including five-year responsibility period....

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Top 100

BT Financial Group (BTFG) has been named as Risk Company of the Year in the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, securing the win from TAL and OnePath, whi...

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Top 100

AIA Australia has come out on top in the term and total and permanent disability (TPD) product category at the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Risk Choice Awards, beating...

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Top 100

Offering life insurance via its superannuation wrap has secured BT Financial Group (BTFG) top spot in both Super Risk categories (See also: Adviser Choice Super Risk Disa...

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Top 100

OnePath outshone its competitors in the risk trauma products category in the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, with MLC Insurance Critical Illness Plus ...

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