ASIC takes Lionsgate off watch list
12 December 2016
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has finished monitoring Lionsgate Financial Group…
12 December 2016
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has finished monitoring Lionsgate Financial Group…
05 December 2016
The Labor Party remains concerned about clawback periods despite the House of Representatives passing the Life Insurance Framework legislation…
05 December 2016
The financial advice industry “has its head in the clouds” if it thinks a fee-for-service model is better than commissions when selling life insurance, Synchron director Don Trapnell says…
05 December 2016
The head of AMP’s life insurance business Pauline Blight-Johnston has been replaced and will leave the company in a management shake-up…
05 December 2016
Direct insurer Freedom Insurance Group has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange after raising $15 from investors, giving a market capitalisation of $90 million…
05 December 2016
Most clients of financial advisers are satisfied with their service, a study commissioned by the Financial Services Council and the Australian Research Council shows…
05 December 2016
Asia-Pacific breast cancer rates are increasing rapidly, with global distribution of new cases shifting towards the region…
05 December 2016
Challenger Life CEO Richard Howes has been appointed CEO Distribution, Product and Marketing at the parent company…
05 December 2016
Asian life insurers’ investment assets will grow at a five-year compound rate of 14.7% to $US4.8 trillion by 2020, according to a forecast by Cerulli Associates…
05 December 2016
Suncorp’s Head of Wealth and Life Intermediaries Mark Vilo will swap roles with Head of Bank Intermediaries Steven Degetto next year…
28 November 2016
The Association of Financial Advisers wants the Life Insurance Code of Practice revised to include group life and legacy products…
28 November 2016
The Tax Practitioners Board has recognised the Certified Financial Planning program as an approved course in Australian tax law…
28 November 2016
Life insurers are to blame for churning because they put pressure on advisers to recommend new products to clients, an adviser group says…
28 November 2016
A Westpac adviser has been banned for eight years for over-insuring clients…
28 November 2016
Financial Planning Association members will be excused from providing fee renewal notices every two years if they sign up to the body’s Professional Ongoing Fees Code…
28 November 2016
Industry associations have welcomed the introduction to Parliament of legislation designed to raise the professional standards of financial advisers…
28 November 2016
A parliamentary inquiry into the big four banks has called for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to have product intervention powers…
28 November 2016
MetLife has re-appeared on the latest list of global systemically important insurers, despite winning a US court case earlier this year ordering its removal…
28 November 2016
Rising rates of Type 2 diabetes and obesity are ushering in a new era of heart disease and jeopardising national life expectancy gains, according to a new report…
28 November 2016
A Melbourne-based adviser won this year’s Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award at the Financial Planning Association’s conference in Perth last week…