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Advisers and super key to underinsurance: AFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... conducted by researcher CoreData and sponsored by AIA Insurance, 703 individuals were surveyed on their views on life insurance and how they address risk. Within survey respondents, some 40 per cent pay commissions on life insurance with a third of these ...

CommInsure hires AMP manager to strengthen retail advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... newly-created role of head of business retention and growth, to help respond to the impact of FOFA on the retail life insurance sector, "With the proposed changes to the retail life insurance industry, as a part of the Future of Financial Advice reforms ...

Direct insurance secures major player status

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... competitor to advisers and group insurance alike. According to latest figures from Rice Warner Actuaries' latest Direct Life Insurance Report, direct accounted for 11.8 per cent of in-force business with total sale for 2009 to 2010 up 3.3 per cent to ...

Praemium V-Wrap platform goes mobile

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... week after Praemium announced it would partner with life insurer, Tower Australia, to allow Tower to be the sole life insurance product provider on the platform. Tower will pay Praemium an undisclosed fee for Tower's access and integration into its insurance ...

Tower, Praemium tackle new frontier

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... administrator, Praemium which will give Tower access to its 200 planner groups. The partnership allows Tower to be the sole life insurance product provider on the platform. Tower products available will include life cover, permanent disability, critical ...

New judge for AFA Adviser of the Year award

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... Sheils responsibilities include business-to-business and services sector research, with previous experience in the life insurance market working with advisers and developing market segmentation. She has also launched a quarterly omnibus survey of advisers ...

Advisers launch FOFA attack

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... his organisation also believed opt-in should not be law despite the two-year compromise and that the banning of life insurance commissions in superannuation would increase the nation's undersinsurance problem. While Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... look a lot more like the aged pension, argued Cooper. "What the industry needs to do is work out private ways that life insurance companies and superannuation funds and other organisations can provide, effectively, a private pension." Cooper's comments ...

AFA award launched to encourage female financial planners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... Advice Award in Sydney last night. Tackling the gender gap that exists in retirement savings, wealth protection and life insurance- the AFA's Female Excellence in Advice Award (Award) is designed to promote financial advice as a career for women by applauding ...

Financial services boost mixed Macquarie results

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... Australian dollar. Macquarie Funds has $305 billion in assets under management, down from $311 billion a year prior. Life insurance business, Macquarie Life, increased inforce risk insurance premiums by 59 per cent on the prior year. Income from outside ...