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Risk inflows marginally recover

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2021
... AIA recorded 115.2% growth and was followed by ClearView (23.7%) and MLC (13.7). The statistics come after the life insurance industry said the increase in life insurance premiums over the last few years are a problem that needs to be fixed rather than ...

Accumulation bubble ending: AFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
... their relationships with their clients," Inwood said. "Insurance will need to change as old people tend not to want life insurance, they want other types of insurance and younger people want lower value life insurances, so expect some real changes in ...

Higher premiums a problem, not a trend: AFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
The increase in life insurance premiums over the last few years are a problem that needs to be fixed rather than recognising it as a trend, according to AIA's chief executive. Speaking on a panel at the Association of Financial Advisers national conference ...

Stephen Jones changes tack on risk advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... national conference, shadow minister for financial services and superannuation Stephen Jones said his views on life insurance have been challenged. Jones said he has reflected on arguments advisers brought to him over the last 18 months after admitting ...

Adviser overwhelm explained

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... parliamentary joint committee proposal to lift professional standards. In 2015, there was the Trowbridge inquiry into life insurance, before the process that would lead to the Royal Commission began in 2017. Looking forward, Anderson warned that financial ...

Advisers filter clients via ethical lens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
... that in the midst of advisers trying to stay viable and paying out huge overheads in the form of licence, education and insurance costs and the like - making a profit is not unethical. Like other for-profit organisations, financial advice businesses ...

Labor to push for YFYS stapling amendments

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... think they should make concessions in those areas because the real-life consequence on people will be excluded from life insurance cover," Jones told Financial Standard in an interview from the sidelines of the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds.. ...

Life insurers getting into rehab concerning: SCA

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... its demerits, says Super Consumers Australia director Xavier O'Halloran. Speaking at a panel on the future of life insurance in Australia, O' Halloran said while insurers getting into rehabilitation can help, but two key concerns remained. "Obviously ...

Level premiums to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... premiums will continue to exist. Speaking on a panel at the Association of Financial Advisers Conference, MLC chief of life insurance Sean McCormack said he doesn't believe APRA's changes will represent the "death knell" of level premiums as Australians ...

Stephen Jones admits to anti-life insurance bias

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... financial services Stephen Jones outlined Labor's vision for financial advice and admitted to apprehension on life insurance. Jones said, referring to the ASIC review of the life insurance industry that is currently ongoing, that he is going in to ...