AFCA seeks feedback on super complaints
16 September 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority is seeking submissions on its handling of superannuation-related insurance disputes...
16 September 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority is seeking submissions on its handling of superannuation-related insurance disputes...
16 September 2024
The federal government is a step closer to legislating the objective of superannuation, having secured passage of its bill in the House of Representatives earlier this year...
16 September 2024
Financial Advice Association Australia says its Find a Planner tool has been given an improved user interface and profile pages...
16 September 2024
MLC Life Insurance has appointed Gerard Kerr as chief executive of individual business and Jane McGovern as chief customer and strategy officer...
09 September 2024
An insured has lost a claim dispute after seeking a bigger payout than the $50,000 he received from his insurer, insisting he met his trauma policy’s definition of a heart attack...
09 September 2024
Christchurch-based Integrity Advisers Insurance engaged in “serious misconduct” handling clients who wanted to cancel their life policies and its licence has been revoked, the Financial Markets Authority says...
09 September 2024
A life insurer failed to tell policyholders about premium changes, breaching its obligations under the industry’s code of practice...
09 September 2024
Financial Advice Association Australia has flagged concerns over draft changes to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ occupation classifications...
02 September 2024
A woman who was diagnosed with two separate breast cancers will not be covered because the discoveries came days before her life policy’s qualifying period expired...
02 September 2024
Increasing the availability of life retirement products has been declared a strategic priority for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority...
02 September 2024
An insurer has been ordered to compensate more than 900 policyholders after it failed to meet claims handling time frames under the Life Insurance Code of Practice...
02 September 2024
TAL says it will expand its partnership with the AFLW in the second year of its league sponsorship...
02 September 2024
MetLife has launched an online tool for group insurance policyholders to access their cover...
26 August 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says “low-value” life products will be a focus area as it steps up scrutiny of the industry in coming months...
26 August 2024
The life industry posted better results in the January-March period, according to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority statistics...
26 August 2024
Life insurers discussed the key challenges in developing longevity solutions at an annual Australian Prudential Regulation Authority roundtable last month...
26 August 2024
Specialist life insurance company PPS Mutual has changed the application process for its Professionals Choice cover...
26 August 2024
Financial services group ClearView Wealth says its full-year results show it is successfully changing into a “pure life” business...
26 August 2024
Applications have opened for the Council of Australian Life Insurers’ annual support program for mid-career female financial risk advisers...
26 August 2024
PPS Mutual has appointed actuarial expert Anthony Asher to its board of directors...