LIFE INSURANCE

Life/Risk

APRA outlines capital adequacy and solvency standards ahead of amendments to Life Act....

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Top 100

OnePath's Trauma Premier cover has taken out this year’s Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Award for trauma products....

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Top 100

AIA Australia has won the business overhead category of this year’s Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards....

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Top 100

OnePath has remained at the top of the insurance game over the past 12 months and has again been named Money Management/Dexx&r's Risk Company of the Year....

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Financial planning

Privately owned platform provider netwealth has struck a deal with major insurer TAL to add the TAL Accelerated Protection product to its LifeWRAP facility....

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Life/Risk

The opt-in requirement will touch the day-to-day operations of risk advisers who have switched to some form of fee remuneration model, writes Sue Laing....

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Superannuation

AIA Australia has made it clear that SMSF trustees now have a number of insurance options at their disposal....

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Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has received support from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for its new framework aimed at reducing churning in life/ris...

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Superannuation

Lack of knowledge among financial advisers seems to be the main reason for the shortfall in the take-up of life insurance cover in the SMSF market, according to research ...

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Superannuation

A gap in knowledge has been identified as the main reason for the decline in the purchase of life insurance cover by SMSFs, AIA has found....

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Life/Risk

Allen Iu writes that the communication evolution is changing the way the life insurance industry connects with customers – and could help us solve the underinsurance prob...

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Life/Risk

ClearView has posted positive results for the 2011/2012 financial year after extending its reach into the life insurance and wealth management markets....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that when FSC chief executive John Brogden announced the framework of new claw-back provisions around the sale of life policies, he reignited a debate ...

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Life/Risk

Synchron has slammed the FSC's new life insurance churn policy as "disgraceful"....

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Financial planning

Both the AFA and FPA have questioned the three-year clawback period outlined in the FSC's new life insurance sales policy. ...

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