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APRA issues warning on group risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Insurance regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a warning that while the overall life insurance is in reasonable financial shape, sustained pressure on the group risk sector is becoming a strategic threat that insurers ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos said, "The government will soon consider the unnecessary barriers to the development of longevity insurance products, as part of a broader review of the regulatory arrangements for retirement income streams." The scrapping ...

Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... at the same time as the Federal Government has announced it will soon consider the barriers to developing longevity insurance products as part of a broader review of the regulatory arrangements for retirement income streams. "Longevity insurance products ...

FSC asks Son of Wallis Inquiry to focus on export growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... External Dispute Resolution framework and the interplay with the availability and affordability of professional indemnity insurance. It also asked the inquiry to look at education standards for financial advisers and to review the impact of the FoFA ...

Risk adviser sentiment up in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... were also more optimistic about their current and immediate future sales volumes, and overall consumer demand for life insurance advice. However, 49.5% had a negative sentiment about the current regulatory environment and only 26.5% felt positive about ...

Gloomy outlook forces Crowe Horwath to trim business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... advisers of Crowe Horwath's Melbourne-based firm will acquire a 50% interest in the financial planning, lending and risk insurance operations of that firm by February 1, 2014. The company attributes the fall of revenue to weak demand for advice services ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... followed in like manner and I might say the performance hasn't been too bad... we're only down by a cigarette paper." Insurance giant QBE has also recovered, adding 29.5 cents or 2.73 per cent to $11.115, a day after having its credit rating downgraded ...

APRA issues draft group insurance PPG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
APRA has written to life insurance chief executives announcing a new draft Prudential Practice Guide (PPG) for how they should handle operational and business issues and risks surrounding group insurance sold to super funds. The regulator said the PPG ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... put on 44 cents to $75.34 and National Australia Bank had climbed 28 cents to $33.45. There has been no respite for insurance giant QBE, after more than $4 billion was wiped from its market cap on Monday with its shares falling more than 22 per cent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... International holds its annual general meeting on the Gold Coast. In Australia, the market on Monday lost ground as insurance giant QBE's losses weighed on the financial sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped 41.6 points, or 0.8 per cent, to ...