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Major decline in group insurance coverage: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... providing affordable and cost-effective cover that delivers real benefits for those whose working life is cut short by accident or illness and their families," said ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty. "Legislative constraints introduced in 2019 have ...

Local fund managers lag global peers: FSC

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2023
... international peer comparisons," Briggs said. "The significant foreign capital managed in other financial centres is not an accident. This has been achieved through a deliberate focus by these jurisdictions on regulatory and tax reform that support the ...

ASIC lifts ClearView interim stop order

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2023
ASIC has lifted its interim stop order after ClearView swiftly amended the deficiencies in its Target Market Determination (TMD). The interim stop order applied to Clearview Life's ClearChoice Income Protection Cover and Accidental Income Protection ...

ASIC slaps interim stop order on ClearView

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2023
ClearView has copped an interim stop order on two of its life insurance products after ASIC found deficiencies in its Target Market Determination (TMD). The interim stop order applies to Clearview Life's ClearChoice Income Protection Cover and Accidental ...

Life, funeral insurers cop $14m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
The disgraced director of Select AFSL, the company the Hayne Royal Commission exposed for hawking life and funeral insurance to vulnerable customers, has been banned from managing a company for five years, while his companies were fined $13.5 million. ...

AI in ESG: Risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

Australia can avoid recession: Outlook

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... acceleration in rates was necessary to catch up to inflation but to continue at that pace would run the risk of a serious accident that tips us unnecessarily into recession."

Packhorse lists cattle stations for sale

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... said. Expressions of interest are invited by December 15. Strachan passed away in August in a light plane crash. The accident also killed Strachan's son Noah, and pilot Garry Liehm.

Insurance, retirement product excellence recognised

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
TAL, Generation Life, MLC Life and Challenger were among the winners at last night's annual Plan For Life Excellence Awards in Sydney. Now in their ninth year, the awards aim to celebrate achievements in product design and innovation across life ...

ASIC response to Freedom Insurance saga continues

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2022
ASIC has so far secured more than $102 million in remediation for Freedom Insurance customers and is urging anyone else who purchased life cover through the now-defunct insurer to come forward. Freedom Insurance went out of business after ASIC's review ...
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