Life Insurer AIA Australia has signed with HUB24 to provide access to and management of its risk insurance products for financial planners via HUB24’s online platform. ...

ASFA has called for an independent review of large SuperStream costs....

AMP Limited earnings update reveals extent of losses in Australian wealth protection division....

ClearView has boosted its number of advisers as a result of recent growth in its life insurance business....

Retail life insurance may not be the commercial panacea some financial planners believe, according to new analysis released by Tria Investment Partners....

Inflows into risk insurance products continued to climb after a strong 2012, with inflows into individual risk lump sum and income products and group risk products increa...

Rice Warner’s latest direct insurance report said that a growth in term, income protection and accident cover via direct insurance channels showed consumers were increasi...

Peter Hogan outlines the key issues trustees should consider when addressing insurance in a fund's investment strategy. ...

APRA member Ian Laughlin lays it on the line on the insurer failures which have led to hefty premium rises for super fund members....

AFA insists any examination of churn and self-regulation must look beyond the adviser channel....

The Federal Opposition says that so far as churn exists in the life/risk sector it should be subject to a self-regulatory approach....

AFA chief executive Brad Fox says the AFA will re-engage with the FSC around churn but that the major insurers must also ante up....

Letter from Shorten and consultation with ASIC prompts FSC to reopen moves for self-regulation around churn. ...

ASIC will spend the next 12 months focusing intensely on churn, according to the senior executive leader of the financial advisers team, Joanna Bird. ...