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Advice associations meet new minister

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... for members." Recently the two associations have also partnered on a life insurance taskforce as ASIC's Life Insurance Framework review approaches.

FPA, AFA partner on life insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... have teamed up for a life insurance taskforce as the industry inches towards ASIC's review of the life insurance framework slated for 2021. The Financial Planning Association of Australia and the Association of Financial Advisers will appoint two ...

Risk commission changes imperil advice practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
As financial advisers adjust their business models to the Life Insurance Framework, many fear the Royal Commission's recommendations will further undermine the viability of their practices. This is according to ClearView's latest survey of 630 financial ...

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... early," ClearView wrote in an email to advisers, to consider tinkering with commission caps again given the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) reforms are partly implemented and will not be fully implemented until 2021. ClearView believes the LIF - once ...

Risk advice a hard sell: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... that any consideration of life insurance advice is undertaken in 2021 as part of the ASIC review of the Life Insurance Framework reforms, Bailey said collaboration between regulators, policymakers, financial advisers and insurers is essential to ensure ...

ClearView posts first half profit dip

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
ClearView posted a 13% dip in its underlying NPAT in the first half as it repositions pricing of its life insurance and wealth management products. The ASX-listed diversified financials has three main businesses: life insurance, wealth management and ...

Synchron slams RC on commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... 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". Trapnell says Synchron will approach the Government to make ...

Super pool ripe for adviser picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... expand the scope of their advice to combat pressures put upon them by regulatory reforms such as the Life Insurance Framework. "This is doubly important because it's only a matter of time before there are renewed calls to ban insurance commissions ...

More risk advisers offloading practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
Pressures of the Royal Commission, the Life Insurance Framework and educational reforms are prompting risk advisers to hurriedly sell their practices at discount prices, a merger and acquisitions expert says. Radar Results principal John Birt said there ...

Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... distribute and promote St Andrews funeral insurance products on 19 March 2018. This was on the basis that the Life Insurance Framework that came to effect 1 January 2018 and it was not "commercially viable" for the partnership to continue, he said. "Well ...