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Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... independent or aligned to a banking or insurance group - are gradually becoming under threat from direct channels such as telephone or online marketing. Direct purchases accounted for about 20% of in-force annual premiums worth $9.7 billion at the end ...

Group insurance dominates life insurance channels: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... broker. The results counter conflicting reports from two different surveys released this month, which found online and telephone sales were the most popular ways life insurance was bought. Based on 7632 consumers polled in Roy Morgan's survey, life insurance ...

Phone leads life insurance sales: Roy Morgan

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
Using the telephone was the most popular means of purchasing life insurance policies in the year to November, the latest Roy Morgan survey shows. One-quarter (24.7%) of the 7632 consumers polled in Roy Morgan's Single Source survey rang the company ...

ASIC recoups $40m from NAB and ANZ

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... be settled by a court process." "As part of ASIC's investigation NAB has provided emails, instant chat messages and telephone conversations involving our employees. NAB retains this information as part of our business processes," Gall said. ANZ chief ...

NAB to simplify operations via job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... attend the centres, or prefer digital access, NAB will offer online workshops and resources, and career coaching over the telephone. Thorburn highlighted the bank will happily retrain those who have the aptitude and commitment to do so, though he said ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... one-off reductions in some categories of prices, especially a large decline in quality-adjusted prices for wireless telephone services. "My best guess is that these soft readings will not persist, and with the ongoing strengthening of labor markets ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... looking less likely due to what Yellen termed as "idiosyncratic factors, including sharp declines in prices of wireless telephone services and prescription drugs..." Inflation isn't lifting despite the US unemployment rate (4.4% in June) falling below ...

CommInsure upgrades underwriting offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... by launching a new service and updating its existing rules. Advisers will now have the option to request a dedicated telephone-interviewing team to collect information from customers directly to complete their personal statement for life cover. The feature ...

Suncorp fined for consumer credit breach

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... debit payment had failed," ASIC said. "Subsequently, some consumers were subject to collections activity, including telephone calls or letters from Suncorp's debt collections staff." ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell said: "'Companies engaging in credit activity ...

ASIC takes Westpac to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... advice - a claim that BT Financial Group rejects. The court action is a result of an ASIC investigation into Westpac's telephone sales campaigns targeting superannuation members. The regulator cites 15 cases in which it alleges WSAL and BTFM provided ...