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Allianz automates underwriting with RTP

... subsidiary of US-based Reinsurance Group of America. The group's product AURA is a software solution used by underwriters, agents and brokers to process life insurance applications. Michelle Baltazar

Advisers want transparency from licensees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... is whether the licensee sees their role as supporting their advisers or whether the advisers are just their distribution agents. The switch to fee for services is pushing this re-evaluation, especially among younger planners, he said. "We need to see ...

A kingdom for my castle

... from a new web service www.sellmycastle.com.au which allows them to describe their property online and invite real estate agents to bid for the sale contract, a novel European-based concept that was launched in Australia this month. SellMyCastle's chief ...

Real estate commissions better than advisers': REIA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... Institute of Australia (REIA) has criticised financial advisers for charging commissions even though they implied real estate agents have very similar fee structures. In their submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure and Operation of ...

Industry pleads for greater professionalism

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... transition, but I think we need to be aware that we have black marks on the report card." He added, "We used to call advisers agents, and that's because they were. Now we have to go to the next level to ensure clients have the choice, not legislate how ...

Sydney insurance brokers to stand trial

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2006
... March 2003 after an ASIC investigation which found the business was had contravened sections 19 and 21 of the Insurance (Agents and Brokers) Act 1984. Paul Blundell has been charged with three counts of fraudulently omitting to account for money and ...

NAB completes $575m insurance sale to AXA

... Pacific bolsters its position in the region and will become the second largest life insurer in Indonesia with more than 2,200 agents in the country. The move will also beef up AXA's operations in the growing Hong Kong market. ""Life insurance margins ...

Single women a rising force in residential property

... homes." Despite these emerging trends, Newspoll found that a quarter of the female survey respondents felt that real estate agents paid more attention to their partner. "While most homes are bought by a couple, a woman obviously has enormous clout in ...

ASIC shadow shopping: the good, the bad and the ugly

... 284, of the advice surveyed was given by AFSL representatives while the remaining 22 were from non-AFSL accountants, tax agents or mortgage brokers. In a significant move, ASIC chairman Jeff Lucy has said that as a result of the survey, they will make ...

Advice is cheap compared to tax return fees

If Australians are comfortable spending $1 billion on lodging tax returns through tax agents, then financial adviser fees might almost seem a bargain. According to the 2002-03 Taxation Statistics Report, Australians paid $1 billion in tax agent fees ...