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The Financial Ombudsman Service has introduced new services and staff in a bid to improve its engagement with financial planning members....
Editorial
Realising the cash value on term insurance policies can often prove difficult. Col Fullagar explains why employing a life settlement vehicle can help your clients address...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council conference has been told that the group life sector will expand by upwards of 60 per cent over the next half decade....
Financial planning
Hiring patterns across the banking and financial services industry show some sectors are booming while others, such as financial advice, reveal a decrease in hiring activ...
Financial planning
Netwealth Investments has announced it is launching a new integrated insurance facility, LifeWRAP, in conjunction with AIA Australia....
Financial planning
As Australia's population continues to age, Virginia Harrison looks at the recent developments in the retirement products sector, and asks: is enough being done to addres...
Financial planning
ANZ has rebranded the ING businesses. ...
Financial planning
The Government's election policy embrace of MySuper has gained qualified industry endorsement, with warnings to end union/industry fund dominance of default super....
Financial planning
The possibility of standardised commissions has emerged as an option as major insurers have urged the Federal Government to act cautiously and consult widely on the Coope...
Life/Risk
A ban on commissions on compulsory insurance in super is perhaps a good thing, but an outright ban on all commissions would be a massive threat to solving the underinsura...
Life/Risk
ALI Group has formed a long-term strategic alliance with global life insurer Metlife under which Metlife will become the insurance partner for ALI Group’s new mortgage an...
Tools & guides
Hybrid premiums are an alternative solution to keeping insurance affordable when your clients need cover the most, writes Stephen Rosengren....
Life/Risk
Sydney-based software vendor Omnium has launched an iPhone application for comprehensive life insurance quotes....
Life/Risk
The Financial Planning Association has found no evidence of mis-selling of life insurance that would justify a ban on commissions, stating that the only beneficiary of th...
Financial planning
Members of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have formally agreed to a name change following a general meeting in Sydney yesterday....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...