Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....
Swiss Reinsurance is pushing the life insurance industry to find novel ways to promote the health benefits of returning to work to recover post-injury....
Suncorp Group only major life insurance provider with decreased growth in 12-month period....
New head of sales strategies and research will be in charge of developing, promoting and delivering Zurich’s life insurance proposition....
The provision of advice during life insurance claims should be part of an holistic advice model but has been largely ignored....
Group insurance arrangements for life insurance may be tightened after APRA released draft guidelines aimed at limiting premium increases and requiring more information f...
TAL executive warns consumers that having a secret money stash is no substitute for financial protection....
Zurich survey reveals risk advisers will enter 2014 feeling more positive than they have for two years....
New survey reveals super trustees and executives don’t believe their members understand their life insurance offerings....
Industry action against churn not likely as product providers restrict behaviour....
Founder of Frontier Advisors Fiona Trafford-Walker has been named Woman of the Year as part of the Money Management/Super Review inaugural Women in Financial Services Awa...
APRA’s September quarter data confirms continuing challenges for insurers, particularly with respect to group risk....
The discussion about the impact of technology on the advice landscape is becoming increasingly frequent. Consumers, living increasingly digital lives, will continue to lo...
Despite revenue growth, TAL is not immune to the challenges facing the life insurance industry, having more than halved its net profit in the last six months....
Asteron Life has launched a new remuneration structure for advisers, which will see them receive 10 per cent extra commission in year one....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...