Life Insurance
14 July 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers warns the industry is being “pushed to the limits” amid a sharp rise in the number of people leaving work due to mental health conditions...
14 July 2025
The Life Code Compliance Committee has outlined three key priorities in its 2025-26 work plan...
14 July 2025
Life premium growth in Australia and other advanced Asia-Pacific economies is expected to hit 0.4% this year and 1.1% next year, according to Swiss Re...
14 July 2025
St Andrew’s Insurance Group has appointed former Zurich executive Colin Morgan as a non-executive director...
14 July 2025
Zurich will provide group insurance to Australian Retirement Trust customers with Super Savings accounts...
07 July 2025
The personal financial advice sector’s share of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort levy has been reduced by about $2.8 million under revised estimates for this financial year...
07 July 2025
Former wealth adviser Joshua Fuoco has been held in contempt of court for defying orders made in 2018 barring him from the industry for 10 years...
07 July 2025
Financial Advice Association Australia is accepting nominations for its annual excellence awards...
07 July 2025
The TAL Risk Academy has released details of its half-year education program...
30 June 2025
A class action for life advice clients who allegedly paid “excess premiums” may settle by the fourth quarter of this year...
30 June 2025
Acenda Group says Chris de Bruin will join as CEO after its acquisition of Resolution Life Australasia is completed...
30 June 2025
Migrant-focused life adviser Filcare Services has had its permit to operate revoked after breaking its New Zealand licence obligations...
30 June 2025
Bombora Advice says board member Niall McConville has been appointed MD, taking over from Wayne Handley, who will become executive chairman...
23 June 2025
The Life Code Compliance Committee has sanctioned an unnamed insurer over “ambiguous and contradictory” rejection letters sent to policy applicants...
23 June 2025
TAL and Cover Genius have launched a “bite sized” embedded life insurance product in Australia, called Backd...
23 June 2025
Acenda Group has made four board appointments as it prepares for Resolution Life Australasia to become part of the business...
23 June 2025
David Ormsby has won Financial Advice Association Australia’s Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award for this year’s first semester of industry studies...
16 June 2025
Life insurers have made progress improving re-rating practices, marketing and disclosure materials, and product governance, regulators say...
16 June 2025
Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino is keen to complete the Albanese government’s financial advice regulation overhaul, the peak body for advisers says after a meeting with the minister...
16 June 2025
The Australasian Life Underwriting and Claims Association has named the winners of its annual excellence awards...