The life insurance sector has grown by around $200 million in the last quarter of 2012....
It has been a decade since the risk industry embraced phone and online underwriting. But has this technology delivered on its promise? Chris Kirby writes....
ClearView Wealth has appointed Mike Pope and Elliot Singfield to the senior management team as it continues to build on its life insurance, wealth management and financia...
Challenger has produced a net profit after tax (NPAT) of $149 million for the six months to 31 December 2012, up 17 per cent on the prior corresponding period....
A group of financial advisers has taken to social media to raise concerns that insurance comparison website Choosi is misrepresenting its services to clients and leading ...
We can buy everything online – clothes, shoes, cars, holidays – so it is only natural that the direct life insurance channel is becoming part of the online tsunami. How t...
FSC's John Brogden offers to have the industry co-fund a public education campaign on the value of advice....
The life insurance remains one of the more buoyant sectors of the financial services industry, according to the latest data released by the Australian Prudential Regulati...
Suncorp Group has lifted its dividend on the back of a strong half-year result....
Clive Levinthal has left ClearView for a CEO position at Experien Insurance Services. ...
The Financial Services Council's backdown on its 'churning' policy has been welcomed by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....
The Financial Services Council (FSC) will not go ahead with its application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to have its insurance churning policy ap...
Up to 30 per cent of Australians may have no personal insurance, according to new research released today by major insurer, TAL....
Whether you are the adviser replacing a life insurance policy, or the one who recommended it in the first place, you should be fine as long as it's only ever about the cl...
Improving consumer demand and sales volumes have bolstered life/risk adviser sentiment, according to the latest Zurich index....
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 ...