Life firms fire back after Hayne hammering
08 October 2018
AMP, TAL and other life insurers have taken issue with potential misconduct findings identified by the counsel assisting the Hayne royal at the end of the round six hearings…
08 October 2018
AMP, TAL and other life insurers have taken issue with potential misconduct findings identified by the counsel assisting the Hayne royal at the end of the round six hearings…
08 October 2018
Beleaguered Freedom Insurance Group has suspended direct sales of all life products as it continues to search for a new business model…
08 October 2018
Choice CEO Alan Kirkland has called on the financial services and life insurance sector to end outbound sales calls following revelations at the Hayne royal commission…
08 October 2018
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Director of Public Prosecutions have won an appeal against the sentence of former senior financial planner Ricky David Gillespie…
08 October 2018
Zurich has adopted UndewrWriteMe’s underwriting rules engine as part of a major overhaul of the insurer’s adviser-facing portal. It is the fourth company to adopt the engine this year…
01 October 2018
The Hayne royal commission’s interim report and policy questions document has challenged the life insurance sector over continuing poor quality advice and links to commission payments…
01 October 2018
Life risk premium growth and earnings will be subdued over the next year as super insurance opt-in and poor income product performance damages the life risk sector, says a new S&P Global ratings report…
01 October 2018
Members of the Financial Services Council’s Life Insurance Code of Practice reported 23 breaches of the code in the last financial year, according to the compliance committee’s first annual report…
01 October 2018
Law firm Slater and Gordon has filed class action proceedings in the Federal Court against National Australia Bank and MLC on behalf of customers who were sold “worthless” credit card insurance…
01 October 2018
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released a guide setting out its approach to the approval and oversight of compliance schemes for financial advisers…
01 October 2018
Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert, who took over the financial services portfolio last month, will address the Association of Financial Advisers conference on Friday next week…
01 October 2018
The Australasian Life Underwriting and Claims Association is still accepting applications for next week’s conference in Hobart…
24 September 2018
Financial Services Council CEO Sally Loane says the next version of the life insurance code of practice will take a stronger stance on poor sales practices highlighted at the Hayne royal commission…
24 September 2018
Individual risk lump sum new business sales fell 6.8% to a five-year low of $1.27 billion in the last financial year, research house Dexx&r says…
24 September 2018
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has cleared WA adviser Robert Hutchison of financial misconduct and set aside a lifetime ban barring him from the industry…
24 September 2018
Dishonest conduct has resulted in two former Macquarie financial advisers being banned from providing financial services for 10 years…
24 September 2018
The Financial Planning Association is supporting an expanded series of networking events that aim to encourage the advancement of women in the profession…
24 September 2018
A Queensland man with a history of fraud convictions has been permanently banned from the financial services sector…
24 September 2018
Financial planners have been granted authority to witness a Commonwealth statutory declaration, following a decade-long lobbying effort by the Financial Planning Association…
17 September 2018
AMP continued to charge clients who had died for life insurance premiums despite having been informed of their deaths, the Hayne royal commission into financial misconduct heard today…