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Zurich, InterPrac, Sequoia back pro-bono advice

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... or disability. Zurich said its life insurance advice business will work with PFAN to help Australians access personal insurance advice and insurance claims assistance. This includes evaluating claims eligibility, preparing, reviewing and lodging claims ...

Evalesco acquires boutique firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
... and Asteron Life. De Minaur was previously a financial adviser at NAB Private and Eluvia Financial Services. "Personal insurance has always been an important focus for our business. As we've grown, and now with the inclusion of the Noall & Co's ...

Adviser slapped with four-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... said, adding that she failed to consider an exit strategy for her clients. She also did not provide appropriate personal insurance cover or keep proper records. ASIC deemed that she lacked the competence to provide financial services and her "understanding ...

The barriers to limited advice: Licensees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... Alexander, along with Dummett and Ardino, noted the most advised topics are retirement planning, superannuation and personal insurance. However, Alexander agrees with Ardino believing scaled or limited advice, particularly in these topics, is not a different ...

Stanford Brown adds partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
Stanford Brown has welcomed a new partner and financial adviser to the firm shortly after it named a new chief executive. Nicky Boustred has joined as a private wealth adviser and shareholder, after running Nixon Boustred Advisory, a financial planning ...

New firm joins Count Financial network

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... business that provides individual and small business clients covering accounting, tax, finance, investment and personal insurance advice. The accounting practice services about 1400 clients, of which about 400 are investment and/or insurance clients. ...

HESTA hikes default insurance cover

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... insurance fee that members pay. "For many of our members, the cover they have through their super may be the only personal insurance cover they have," the spokesperson said. HESTA's group insurance is provided by AIA Australia. TPD, which is not ...

AMP faces fresh class action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
AMP is facing a fresh class action, as Shine Lawyers confirms it is investigating whether the firm's financial advisers breached their fiduciary and statutory duties to an estimated 100,000 clients. Shine Lawyers alleges the beleaguered firm failed ...

Licensee faces hefty remediation bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... Alliance's Professional Investment Services from 2003 to 2012. ClearView also began reviewing its advisers' personal insurance advice to determine if there was a systemic issue, it engaged Deloitte to provide independent oversight. The review ...

Boutique AFSL acquires advice practice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... team-based approach. "Although we've been wealth focused, we're also big believers in the importance of personal insurance to clients," Abood said. "This transaction will bring our business greater scale in this area, as well as a specialist ...
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