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Life/Risk
The ISWG’s draft Life Insurance in Superannuation Code of Practice requires any opt out or cessation arrangements to be straightforward and transparent. ...
Life/Risk
Advisers can assess their business’ Life Insurance Framework readiness through AMP’s new resource hub....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told a Parliamentary committee it has seen little improvement in the delivery of non-compliant life insurance adv...
Superannuation
Industry superannuation fund Vision Super has told the Productivity Commission that the banks are ‘scandal-ridden’ and cannot be trusted with respect to insurance inside ...
Features
Technology may be vital for increasing efficiency and decreasing costs but the key to achieving this lies in how financial advice practices implement and utilise it, Jass...
Financial planning
Mortgage broker representatives have highlighted the inequity of upfront commission clawbacks....
Policy & Regulation
Evidence provided to a Parliamentary Joint Committee has thrown further doubt on the existence of life/risk churn as a major problem....
Life/Risk
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer suggests life insurance commissions should have been addressed within FOFA....
Features
The Australian life/risk sector is facing a fundamental reshaping as advisers move beyond the LIF and banks consider their return on investment, Mike Taylor finds....
Features
Why are the Japanese insurers and institutions showing such interest in Australia’s life insurance assets while our major banks are looking to the exits, Mike Taylor asks...
Editorial
Was the life insurance industry ever really guilty of “excessive” churn or was churn a means to a politically-motivated end?...
People & Products
Zurich has backed its acquisition of Macquarie Life’s risk business by appointing Peter Mitchell as national sales manager, retail risk....
Awards
Congratulations to MLC for winning Risk Company of the Year at the 2016 Adviser Choice Risk Awards for the second year in a row....
Awards
Congratulations to MLC for winning gold for its term and TPD product for the second year in a row at the 2016 Adviser Choice Risk Awards....
Awards
Congratulations to OnePath for winning the trauma products category at the 2016 Adviser Choice Risk Awards. ...
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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,...