RISK/LIFE

Financial planning

Recently announced life/risk reforms ensure ongoing viability of personal risk advice compared to the risks of disruption inherent in the initial recommendations....

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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar points to push towards advice-based approach to life/risk via a truly wholesale risk insurance premium....

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Policy & Regulation

Mike Taylor reflects that 2015 was a year of policy challenges for the financial services industry, many of which will continue into 2016....

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Financial planning

Just under two-thirds of risk advisers consider themselves prepared for next year’s Life Insurance Framework changes....

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Life/Risk

Risk advisers told that when they switch to fees from commissions they need to demonstrate their value as an adviser....

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Life/Risk

Hybrid commissions may remove perceptions of bias in adviser recommendations, but it will not boost advice quality, the FPA argues....

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Financial planning

The FPA said the recent life/risk debate focused on remuneration rather than the quality of advice as it launched an advice guide....

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Life/Risk

The Life Insurance Framework and other key issues are on the agenda when key planner groups meet with the new Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer this week....

Life/Risk

Life insurers need to innovate, rather than slashing commissions to advisers, if they want create a more sustainable model, an insurance comparison website chief believes...

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Financial planning

Advisers transitioning to the new life/risk remuneration models were in for short-term pain but could be paid more commissions in the long run. ...

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Life/Risk

Life Insurer AIA Australia has appointed five new distribution team members to bolster adviser support resources before the transition to the new Life Insurance Framework...

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Life/Risk

Advisers must take advantage of the new Prime Minister and lobby for change in the clawback provisions of the Life Insurance Framework, Synchron said....

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Life/Risk

New research confirms that the way income protection and TPD claims are handled are crucial to long-term outcomes....

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Life/Risk

Life insurers told to properly define the nature of life/risk lapses or cop shorter responsibility period....

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers and consultants claim life/risk advisers may actually see advantages in the new post-Trowbridge hybrid remuneration environment....

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