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Roadmap to life insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... element of life insurance was one of the industry's biggest hurdles while also tackling insurance affordability for middle Australia. "It is critical that we give increased access consumers, and the development of the direct market is essential for that ...

BT targets advisers with contribution tracker

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
BT Wrap releases new product to help advisers monitor clients' super contributions, avoid excess penalties and take advantage of caps, as the deadline for 2011 declarations approaches. Around 60, 000 Australians were penalised for excess super contributions ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... Gale cautioned that opt-in would have a negative impact on small businesses as advisers were already 'deserting middle Australia', and migrating to the top 30 per cent of clients, by wealth. The issue of statutory fiduciary duty was also keenly discussed ...

Careless spending wastes $25bn

A new survey has found that Australians spend an average $25 billion per year on daily luxuries such as takeaway food and trashy magazines, with the unusual discovery that men are actually the bigger 'careless spenders' than women. Virgin Money has ...

Value of advice shines at Tupicoffs

Financial planner Neil Kendall from financial planning group Tupicoffs has successfully demonstrated the 'value of advice' after his one-off pro-bono work for a low income client saw them nearly $300,000 better off. Announced the winner of this year's ...

Zurich to launch Life Risk Factory

Zurich Financial Services is to unveil a life risk insurance platform that will make it easier, cheaper and faster for people to get life insurance cover. Zurich's head of life risk Andrew McKee declined to give further comment on the proposed platform ...

Turn on more channels: TOWER

... compliance hurdles have been made in some cases too onerous. According to Minto, "The outcome of FSR is that people in middle Australia have less access to insurance because advisers only want to deal with valuable customers [who justify the extra compliance ...
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