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Advisers urged to meet challenges together

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... environmental and legislative forces had worked to squeeze the margins for all types of adviser, not just those advising on life risk. "This is why the theme of this year's conference is adaptive change," he said. "Change threatens your status, income ...

CFS adds aged care annuity to FirstChoice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... platform in 2015. The CarePlus annuity is an aged care solution that combines the benefits of a lifetime annuity with life risk insurance. The annuity is designed to provide an income stream to help meet the costs of aged care facilities.

Life revenue drops, profit increases

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... insurance business was able to halve its total expenses last year, from $29.1 billion to $14.7 billion. In terms of life risk product performance, net profit after tax for the year was $1.4 billion. Individual lump sum risk contributed $1.3 billion ...

Focus on older men will kill financial planning

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... He added that a tokenistic approach to diversity won't cut it, either. He highlighted his time as executive director, life risk at Millennium3 Financial Services, which bought the business "SuperWoman" to create a financial planning business staffed ...

Zurich appoints Macquarie vets

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... Longden to the role of head of strategy and propositions. Longden will oversee proposition management across Zurich's life risk and investment businesses. Macquarie Queensland state manager wealth management, Dave Evans, will also join Zurich as national ...

ASIC issues first "best interests" duty penalty

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... appropriately, arguing that the group promoted the idea that it is "almost always" in client's best interest to take out life risk insurance regardless of individual circumstances. Regular performance reviews of advisers were not undertaken, and advisers ...

PPS launches life insurance mutual offering

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
South African financial services firm PPS has launched PPS Mutual in Australia, providing access to a retail life risk mutual offering. Under this model, select retail investors within particular professional fields (including medicine, accounting ...

MLC offers insurance rollover to external funds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... CommInsure and Hannover Re. In fact, a Plan for Life report released on October 20 showed that MLC's share of the total life risk market (which, it should be noted, included both direct and group life business), dropped to 12.1% in the year ended June ...

Aged care concerns top Challenger advice list

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Challenger's CarePlus aims to combine the benefits of a lifetime annuity and providing regular income for aged care costs with life risk insurance providing estate planning certainty. The firm's recent review of adviser queries suggests aged care is ...

Life risk sales bounce back

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Individual life insurance sales are recovering after two poor quarters, according to DEXX&R research. DEXX&R's life analysis report for the June quarter shows that new business in the sector grew by 15% on the March quarter to $321 million. As reported ...