LIFE/RISK

Financial planning

The AFA board has rejected a call from within the LICG for an EGM to pass a special resolution imposing limits to the AFA board’s discretionary powers....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government will allow its expert standards setting body discretion to issue exemptions on a case-by-case basis....

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Features

A double dissolution election has left many financial planning policies in limbo, and advisers are demanding certainty on at least three key issues, Malavika Santhebennur...

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Features

Malavika Santhebennur finds out what else is on advisers’ minds other than the 2016 Federal Budget and FOFA in part three of this feature....

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Features

The life/risk sector still offers growth potential to the major insurers but, as Mike Taylor reports, new regulatory and capital requirements have made for a more challen...

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Features

From a financial planning perspective, it is arguable that no sector has generated more change over the past three years than the life/risk sector. ...

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Features

It has been a little over a year since Jim Minto retired as chief executive of big insurer TAL. It is 12 months during which he has taken the time to reflect on the shape...

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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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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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