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Life/Risk
A new survey has revealed that consumers are cooling on the purchase of life/risk insurance with the number of advisers actually involved also declining....
Financial planning
More work needs to be done on commission-based adviser remuneration in Australia because the research signals are mixed, according to wealthdigital’s Rod Lavery....
Life/Risk
A new whitepaper developed by ClearView is arguing that policy-makers have railed to understand life/risks commissions and the significant risks associated with removing ...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....
Superannuation
TAL has reasserted its market dominance within the group insurance sector, with LGIAsuper announcing the company would take over its insurance mandate just weeks after Re...
People & Products
Many Australians don’t see the benefit in life insurance products until it’s time to make a claim, leading TAL to launch a digital campaign to engage customers with the v...
Expert Analysis
Replacing insurance cover can be complicated and fraught with risk. Col Fullagar outlines steps advisers can take to navigate conversations with clients around this and e...
Features
Major banks and AMP Limited have exited life insurance, significant consolidation has occurred and the Royal Commission has delivered a verdict but, as Mike Taylor writes...
Life/Risk
Australia’s major life/risk insurers have clearly backed the importance of life/risk advisers and signalled their concern at any move to abolish commissions after the 202...
Life/Risk
TAL Dai-Chi Life Australia has finally finished its acquisition of Suncorp’s Australian life insurance business, announcing this afternoon that the process was complete....
Life/Risk
The Federal Government has outlined how it intends on removing the exclusion of insurance claims-handling from the Corporations Act to make it a defined financial service...
Tools & guides
Suzie Brown outlines some of the key considerations for financial advisers when making life insurance recommendations and provides an overview of the upcoming legislative...
Life/Risk
Risk-focused financial planning group, Synchron has signalled its intention to lobby the Government for the retention of life/risk commissions beyond the 2022 Life Insura...
People & Products
An independent adviser survey has seen advisers give OnePath’s life insurance underwriting engine an ‘excellent’ rating. ...
Policy & Regulation
Despite the Australian Law Reform Commissions’ recent recommendations stemming from its Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders, Honan In...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...