Australia's major life insurers need to jointly develop a dictionary of common data terms and descriptors, according to the chief executive of major insurer, TAL Limited,...

AIA Group has released interim results to May 2012....

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned against going too far to address churn when it is not systemic, and only a few advisers are guilty....

Bela Moore and Andrew Tsanadis find some pockets of the financial services industry are hiring while others have brought their recruitment activities to a halt....

ClearView Wealth has recruited six new financial planning practices in July, bringing the total number of advisers in the dealer group to 78....

Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service jumped in the first quarter of this year, while three quarters of resolved cases were by agreement rather than FOS decision....

While the industry has given a broad welcome to the limited licensing regime, accountants will need to be subjected to the same scrutiny as financial planners, writes Mik...

Direct life insurance will account for 40 per cent of all new insurance business by 2021, according to Plan For Life data....

Despite the rise of direct channels, financial planners are better poised to engage customers about life insurance, according to industry executives....

TAL’s Jim Minto argues that while the current economic climate is continuing to worry consumers, now more than ever is precisely the time financial advisers and insurers ...

The new limited licensing regime for accountants has received widespread support from the financial services industry....

SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery believes the new licensing regime set to replace the accountants' exemption would create a bigger role for the association....

The SMSF Academy's Aaron Dunn looks at some of the changes flowing from the Stronger Super reforms and how those changes will affect SMSFs....

It may be as late as mid-2013 before the new accountants' advice regime is up and running....