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Financial Standard launches FS Aspire CPD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... CPD offers hundreds of CPD hours of technical content to financial advice, superannuation, investment management and insurance professionals. It also offers access to technical resources from both Australian and global leaders in financial services. ...

Industry fund launches new integrated platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... productivity and had culled costs that came with this point-to-point integration. It first used Boomi to connect its insurance and member services platforms. "The speed and simplicity of the project resulted in unprecedented demand from stakeholders ...

Freedom Insurance suspends trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
Freedom Insurance Group has requested the ASX to suspend its shares indefinitely. Freedom first requested a trading halt on February 5 based on a "pending announcement providing a material update on the financial position of Freedom and its subsidiaries." ...

Pendal acquires Regnan

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... six years. She was replaced by Pauline Vamos who left after 12 months and later joined the embattled insurer Freedom Insurance Group. Regnan's acting chief executive Alison George said: "This represents an exciting new chapter for Regnan, allowing ...

Synchron slams RC on commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... to grandfathered commissions, and asked government to push to its current 20-60% commission caps on sale of life risk insurance products to zero when it reviews the Life Insurance Framework in 2021, unless "there is a clear justification to keep them". ...

CBA posts $4.6b in profits, dividend flat

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... the wealth customers including reviews of its advice and service delivery functions, Credit Card Plus, CommInsureLife Insurance, CommInsureLoan Protection and NewCo Indemnity. $245 million is to be spent on remediating banking customers on package fees ...

APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... recommendations, Hayne asked for the banking executives accountability regime (BEAR) to be extended to super funds and insurance. Under it, superfunds would have to nominate an accountable person to the regulators. "It would be prudent to enable both ...

Australians prioritise car cover over life insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... of Australians (71%) have a car policy in place, while less than a third (31%) will make an effort to take out life insurance, comparison website Finder found in its latest survey. Of the total 2013 participants who do not have a life insurance policy ...

Superannuation to face BEAR: Hayne

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... APRA." He's also calling for the BEAR to apply to all APRA-regulated insurers to ensure better accountability of life insurance executives. APRA commented that many of the recommendations are consistent with submissions it made to the Commission. ...

Life risk commissions must also go: Hayne

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has recommended ASIC ultimately whittle down the commissions on life insurance products to zero unless there is a clear justification to keep them. On 1 January 2018, advisers' upfront commission for implementing a life ...