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Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... the farm when Helen was born, cooking for the shearers, et cetera. Keep reading. Jodie Douglas, principal, Mad About LIFE Risk Advice Having first dipped her toes into the world of financial services, assisting customers with car loans, Jodie Douglas ...

BT adds extra capability to life quote software

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
Financial advisers using BT's life insurance quote and application software will enjoy new enhancements after the wealth group rolled out an update. Two new features have found their way into BT's LifeCENTRAL+ and are set to make life easier for financial ...

Synchron slams RC on commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... recommended an end 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 ...

Life risk commissions must also go: Hayne

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... million, CommInsure paid $460 million, AMP paid $380 million and Zurich paid $113 million. Opposition to abolishing life risk insurance commissions Submissions to the RC interim report pointed out that the January 2018 changes to life risk insurance ...

ASIC strips Melbourne firm of AFSL

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... Financial Circle was purchased in or around August 2017." Financial Circle held an AFSL authorising it to advise and deal in life risk insurance and superannuation products. It is also held an Australian credit licence authorising it to engage in credit ...

Melbourne AFSL pays $9 million in fines

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... superannuation balances," the regulator said in a statement. Financial Circle holds an AFSL authorising it to advise and deal in life risk insurance and superannuation products. It is also holds an Australian credit licence authorising it to engage in ...

Royal Commission tables life insurance policy questions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... extended to products other than on-sale products. The Corporations Act, they said, exempts monetary benefits received from life risk insurance products. "Why shouldn't the cap on such benefits continue to reduce to zero?" they asked. Banning conflicted ...

Specialist insurer updates definitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... PPS Mutual's proposition within the region. Hopwood spent five years at ANZ Wealth as business development manager for life risk, where he was responsible for managing relationships between key stakeholders, as well as providing product and technical ...

Industry leaders in sales and marketing recognised at MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... Year'. BT Panorama clinched the highly-contested category 'Advertising Campaign of the Year' while Zurich - Life Risk & Investments, which last year won the 'Integrated Campaign of the Year' was back again onstage to win the same ...

Zurich hires risk strategy specialist, retains OnePath brand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... research at CBA, joining in June 2013 and prior to that was a practitioner and lecturer at Kaplan. Zurich head of sales for life risk Nathan Taggart said Crabbe is the ideal candidate to help Zurich continue to grow its distribution footprint in the ...