25 May 2009
The Financial Planning Association has assured members there will be no penalty for failing to comply with its proposed fee-for-service model after being inundated with questions and concerns...
25 May 2009
More people are choosing to go online to buy life insurance rather than see a financial planner, according to Allianz Australia...
25 May 2009
Australian life insurance broker Lifebroker has announced its expansion into the huge UK market...
18 May 2009
Australian soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan are being told by the Defence Department to consider additional life cover to top up their existing death benefits...
18 May 2009
The brisk pace of regulatory reform has proved a little too brisk for life insurance companies with non-operating holding companies...
18 May 2009
Suncorp Wealth Management Group Executive Geoff Summerhayes says the low number of life insurance claims resulting from the Victorian bushfires proves the industry needs to...
18 May 2009
Death cover is offering policyholders more at lower prices, according to independent research organisation SuperRatings...
11 May 2009
The Financial Planning Association has reacted sharply to the Association of Financial Advisers’ rejection of the FPA’s call for financial planners to be paid entirely through fees from 2012...
11 May 2009
Australia and NZ’s life insurance markets are doing fine, but that hasn’t stopped Standard and Poor’s revising the life insurance outlook for the wider Asia-Pacific region to negative...
11 May 2009
Axa Asia Pacific CEO Andy Penn has moved to distance the company from its ambitious aim of doubling enterprise value by 2012...
11 May 2009
AMP Financial Services net cashflows increased 63% during the first quarter as increasing superannuation contributions from employers offset lower discretionary contributions...
04 May 2009
The Financial Planning Association has recommended to the Federal Government that financial planners be paid entirely through fees rather than commissions from 2012...
04 May 2009
Australia’s $1.1 trillion superannuation industry is waiting with interest to see what shape the Federal Government review of the superannuation system will take...
04 May 2009
Tower Australia’s Head of Group Sales Craig Extrem will move to AIG Life after being appointed National Manager of Client Markets for the company’s insurance division...
04 May 2009
Australian families are receiving an average life insurance payout of just $91,000 on the death of a partner as underinsurance booms...
27 April 2009
Life insurer Aviva Australia has refused to comment on speculation that it may withdraw from the local market...
27 April 2009
Axa Asia Pacific wrote 24% more new financial protection business in Australia in the three months to March 31 this year compared with 12 months earlier...
20 April 2009
Investment and Financial Services Association CEO Richard Gilbert is confident he will leave the life insurance industry in good shape when he retires from the top job in September...
20 April 2009
Tapping into community concerns about the economy, Aviva is offering to waive premiums for up to 12 months cumulatively on lump sum life policies held by clients who lose their jobs...
06 April 2009
QBE CEO Frank O’Halloran’s changed retirement arrangements aren’t the only ones coming under scrutiny as governments and shareholders get toey...