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AMP Life sale blocked

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
AMP has confirmed the sale of its life insurance business to Resolution Life is highly unlikely to go ahead. The institution said the sale of AMP Life is highly unlikely to proceed on the current terms do to challenges in meeting the condition precedent ...

ASIC slams consumer credit failures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
ASIC's review of the sale of consumer credit insurance has lambasted the sector for consistently failing consumers in the design and sale of products. According to ASIC report 622, CCI products are being promoted and sold to customers unfairly, and ...

Super fund increases fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... $50,000 balance. LGIAsuper's cap on administration fees of $1575 per year remains unchanged, as do the fund's insurance premiums and indirect cost ratios.

NEOS upgrades super product

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD), a global standards-setting body for the insurance industry. The integration meant NEOS uses a secure, event-driven messaging platform to deliver real-time data to regulators ...

Remembering Ron Grima

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... own diagnosis in August 2018, Grima encouraged all advisers to ensure they are adequately addressing their clients' insurance needs. MND Research Institute of Australia is Australia's most comprehensive motor neurone disease research program, aimed at ...

New features for My AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... links. My AMP allows users to manage day-to-day banking, cashflow and budgeting as well as review and change super and insurance arrangements and access investment reach. Bank accounts from other financial institutions can be incorporated into the My ...

Industry fund to increase premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
A $5.6 billion superannuation fund will increase insurance premiums as part of the Protecting Your Super changes after recently reducing costs for members. From 1 August 2019, EISS Super members will pay more for death and TPD cover, and death only ...

ASIC boosts AFSL application requirements

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... programs for monitoring supervision and training of representatives and a risk management statement. Life insurers and life insurance underwriters will need to provide the corporate regulator with a life insurance capacity statement and underwriting ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... businesses, households and financial markets." "In some jurisdictions, the impact may warrant a near term policy response as insurance to maintain the expansion." Swipe left or right through the latest UK economic surveys and indicators and there's ...

Sydney advice firm loses AFSL

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... AFS licensee because of its financial position," ASIC said. AWSM is required to maintain their professional indemnity insurance and their dispute resolution system until 31 December 2019 despite the cancellation. It may apply to the Administrative Appeals ...