LIFE/RISK

Life/Risk

A key Parliamentary Committee has urged strong scrutiny of past and present insurance Approved Product Lists and move to fully open APLs....

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Life/Risk

Life insurance industry codes need to have regulatory oversight and enforceability to properly hold insurers to account, according to a report from the Parliamentary Join...

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Life/Risk

New survey data has confirmed that the online sales of life/risk insurance have been increasing exponentially – up 108 per cent over the past five years....

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Financial planning

Two life/risk advisers have entered into enforceable undertakings with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission which will see them being overseen by independ...

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Life/Risk

New research from Roy Morgan has revealed that it is the smaller life/risk insurers who have earning greater levels of consumer satisfaction....

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made a strong pitch for further law reform to allow it greater scope to handle claims in the life/risk arena....

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has raised the possibility that some of the direct sales models being used by life insurance companies could breach t...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that with the sale of CommInsure, the pending sale of the ANZ life insurance business and the looming full implementation of the Life Insurance Framewo...

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Life/Risk

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority analysis points to a life/risk industry still struggling to return to normal levels of profitability....

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Life/Risk

Even a small rise in the number of genetic tests could lead to significant increases in life insurance claims costs, according to the Actuaries Institute. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC is using data from the life insurance industry along with risk factors to help identify advisers who are more likely to be providing poor advice....

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Life/Risk

Correspondence provided to Money Management has revealed why the Australian Securities and Investments Commission declined an FOI request to release documents relating to...

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Life/Risk

MLC Life has won back-to-back Risk Company of the Year awards at the annual Money Management Risk Breakfast....

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Life/Risk

A new whitepaper has outlined an integral role for life/risk advisers in an increasingly digital age with insurers placing them in the online mix....

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Life/Risk

The insurance in super code draft has made a down payment towards the reforms needed, Maurice Blackburn believes....

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