With insurance sales practices proving a focus of the Royal Commission’s current hearings, the Commission has heard of how Freedom sold a disabled man funeral insurance a...
In a hearing littered by admissions of wrongdoing by Clearview, the Royal Commission has heard the insurer’s chief risk officer, Gregory Martin, detail how the firm breac...
The practice of offering “downgraded” life insurance products has come under the spotlight at the Royal Commission, with Clearview questioned over its practice of offerin...
Clearview’s targeting of particular demographics for its life/risk products has come under fire on the first day of the Royal insurance hearings, in regard to the insurer...
TAL’s agreement with Suncorp to acquire the latter’s Australian life insurance business is binding as of today, subject to regulatory approvals in Australia and Japan and...
The Financial Services Council has welcomed a regulator’s positive review on the role of the FSC Life Insurance Code of Practice in the sale of direct life insurance, whi...
MetLife Australia has launched a digital life insurance claims platform, making it easier for members to lodge and track claims....
Debbie Kennedy writes that trust is at the core of most consumers’ purchasing decisions regarding life insurance, and that underwriting that takes this into account could...
Planners’ uptake on providing advice on insurance is low, leading to adverse impacts on practice revenue derived from risk advice, Investment Trends has found....
MLC Life has drawn recruits from a range of competitors to help building its group insurance business....
Facing heavier regulatory scrutiny, new research has suggested that Australia’s major life insurers will likely look to greater use of technology....
The Kiwi regulator’s thematic review on replacement business practices in the insurance industry has a number of important findings for the sector, according to the Finan...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged giving consumers the right to take legal action against insurers who breach the Financial Services Council’...
While 90 per cent of firms are confident of their capability to respond to crises, only 17 per cent have tested their preparedness, according to a Deloitte study....
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed that removing the compulsion from insurance inside superannuation for those aged under 25 will have serious i...
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,...