LIFE INSURANCE

Financial planning

Complaints about managed investment schemes almost doubled in the past financial year, while complaints about margin loans were also significantly higher....

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Life/Risk

ASIC has acted to tighten up on the direct marketing of insurance products, warning a marketing services company that its telephone sales risked misleading consumers....

Financial planning

Australia Post is running a 'lifestyle survey' that canvasses consumers' use of investment products, including margin loans and reverse mortgages, and then provides leads...

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Life/Risk

Many of the larger life insurers are not participating in industry fund tenders because of the upheaval that occurs at the frequent renewals, according to APRA executive ...

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Financial planning

Philip Chronican will lead the Australian business, including the ING wealth management operations, which the bank wholly acquired on Friday....

Financial planning

Acquires remaining 51 per cent of joint venture with ING in Australia and New Zealand for $1.76 billion....

Life/Risk

Completing insurance applications has often required advisers and clients to traverse sensitive ground when it comes to clients' medical histories, but those awkward and ...

Top 100

The top life companies in the Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Awards are devoting more resources to adviser and client education to tap into the surging risk ...

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Top 100

ING Life has once again won first place in the term and total and permanent disablement (TPD) category of the Adviser Choice Risk awards. Benjamin Levy reports...

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Top 100

Ongoing adviser education on the benefits of business overheads cover has contributed to Tower’s win in the Adviser Choice Risk Business Overheads Product Category. Liam ...

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Financial planning

Results of the 2009 Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Company of the Year awards announced....

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Financial planning

Austrac has commenced a program of random on-site inspections of financial planners for compliance with anti-money laundering laws....

Financial planning

SARINA RUFFO considers the impact of bankruptcy on your assets, including superannuation and insurance proceeds....

Editorial

IOOF Holdings has flagged the sale of its life insurance business in its 2009 annual results, in which it posted a 32.1 per cent loss in net profit to $15.85 million....

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Editorial

Suncorp's profit for the 2008-09 financial year fell 40 per cent in what chairman John Story called a challenging year for the group....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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