LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....

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Life/Risk

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....

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Life/Risk

Suncorp Group only major life insurance provider with decreased growth in 12-month period....

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People & Products

New head of sales strategies and research will be in charge of developing, promoting and delivering Zurich’s life insurance proposition....

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Life/Risk

The provision of advice during life insurance claims should be part of an holistic advice model but has been largely ignored....

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Superannuation

Group insurance arrangements for life insurance may be tightened after APRA released draft guidelines aimed at limiting premium increases and requiring more information f...

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Life/Risk

TAL executive warns consumers that having a secret money stash is no substitute for financial protection....

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Life/Risk

Zurich survey reveals risk advisers will enter 2014 feeling more positive than they have for two years....

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Superannuation

New survey reveals super trustees and executives don’t believe their members understand their life insurance offerings....

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Life/Risk

Industry action against churn not likely as product providers restrict behaviour....

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Financial planning

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...

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Life/Risk

APRA’s September quarter data confirms continuing challenges for insurers, particularly with respect to group risk....

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Financial planning

The discussion about the impact of technology on the advice landscape is becoming increasingly frequent. Consumers, living increasingly digital lives, will continue to lo...

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Life/Risk

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....

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Life/Risk

Asteron Life has launched a new remuneration structure for advisers, which will see them receive 10 per cent extra commission in year one....

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