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Advisers lacking PII sidestep AFCA rulings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2023
... "He was making a profit. When we explained that to him the dispute disappeared," Singh said. On a brighter note, life insurance complaints trended down 24% to 1898, while general insurance complaints skyrocketed 50% to 27,924. From the total 96,987 complaints ...

ANZIIF chief steps down

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... Reynolds, Megan Beer, and current board president Tim Plant. Reflecting on her tenure, Willsford said it's been an amazing life experience. "I've been given extraordinary opportunities to learn and grow and to make an impact. I feel strongly that ...

Advisers must register for FSCP: ASIC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... Touching on the Quality of Advice Review (QAR), she said ASIC has a formal role in the review in respect of its life insurance work. "Specifically, our work on the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) review has been incorporated into the quality of advice ...

Insurers to get new advocacy body

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
Australia's life insurance industry will soon have a new peak body, the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI). Expected to launch later this year, CALI is the brainchild of a collective of life insurers who believe it is now time for the sector ...

MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... medical definitions ahead of each PDS update - this is more frequent than the 3-year requirement set out by the Life Insurance Code of Practice. At Integrity, when we update a definition and the update is more favourable to policy holders, we automatically ...

No joy in the advice world this Christmas

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... come together, calling for a coordinated approach to supporting the mental health of advisers. At a forum hosted by Zurich Life and Investments, advisers were invited to share their mental health concerns. Those present spoke of being overwhelmed by ...

Life industry steps toward trust

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) and the Life Insurance Professional Standards Working Group (LIPSWG) have come together to establish a professional standards framework. A memorandum of understanding signed by ...

Insurance shake-up puts clients first

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
Round six of the Royal Commission exposed systemic issues across the life insurance value chain and its fledgling code of practice that's yet been powerless to stop unethical behaviour. But industry experts say all hope is not lost. Counsels assisting ...

FSC responds to direct life insurance findings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... insurers that led to poor consumers outcomes. In response to the report ASIC handed down yesterday, the FSC said its Life Insurance Code of Practice has "lifted the bar" in the industry but concedes "there is still room for improvement." The FSC rolled ...

Adviser regulation lacking a professional body, RC hears

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... membership after its investigation found he engaged in misleading, deceptive, dishonest and fraudulent conduct to obtain life insurance for a client. He also breached clients' privacy on numerous instances. The AFA found out about Tindall's ban ...
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