 RACHEL LEONG | THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019 Annual events such as Movember highlight the need to consider the various insurance policies that can protect clients against the financial impacts of serious diseases most commonly affecting men, such as prostate cancer. Read more RACHEL LEONG | FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019 Approaching a difficult topic Read more  ANDRES WEBERSINKE | FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019 Individual disability income insurance (DII or income protection) is a key insurance product for consumers. Read more  JAMES MCFARLAND | FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019 In over 30 years of business Stanford Brown has gained extensive experience partnering with small to medium sized business owners. Read more  GREG MARTIN | FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019 The psychology behind good and bad advice Read more GREG MARTIN | FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019 Discontent is engulfing the retail income protection insurance sector. This is not surprising given income protection claims have doubled in the last ten years. Read more  DANIEL BIONDI , PAUL CRONIN | FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018 Insurance has long been viewed as a relatively stable offering within the financial services sector. Traditionally, people paid their premiums on a regular basis with monies invested for long term gains. Recently though the underlying assumptions, and ... Read more  NOBLEOAK LIFE INSURANCE | FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018 The traditional decision making models of 'needs awareness', 'information search', through to the 'purchase decision' is fast becoming outdated in the new era of digital consumption. Online companies such as Alibaba, Amazon ... Read more NOBLEOAK LIFE INSURANCE | FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018 For the second year running, NobleOak has commissioned research to identify customer trends and behaviour in the life insurance and wider financial services industries. Surveying over 1,000 Australians - including a mix of those who have life insurance ... Read more  JESSICA CHEN , ALAN DOBLE | FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017 Genetic Testing and Insurance Read more |
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The 'blind spot' costing advisers nearly $10bn: Research
|Research from Elemnta indicates financial advisers do not realise they are expending nearly twice as much effort on non-advised operations, highlighting a perception gap and challenges related to data collection and access, which cost 6000 practices about $9.36 billion in "destroyed enterprise value".
Inheritors struggle to act on financial advice: Survey
|Australia's wealthy inheritors are making major financial decisions before they feel ready, with new research highlighting a gap between receiving professional advice and having the confidence to act on it.
NCAs unlikely to solve retirement advice gap: HUB24, CFS
HUB24 and Colonial First State (CFS) say the New Class of Advisers (NCA) will unlikely solve the retirement advice gap Australians face, noting the focus needs to be on helping reduce friction for those with complex advice needs.
Advised cover faces claims data test
Group superannuation insurance appears to outperform individual advised cover on some claim's measures, raising questions about the value of advice when it comes to protecting clients against disability.
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SACHA BURCHGART
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
Though she initially tried, Sacha Burchgart couldn't escape the call of a career in financial advice; it just took staring down her own mortality to see what's possible when you do things differently. Jamie Williamson writes.
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How technology is turning tax complexity into client clarity
What used to be a relatively simple back-of-the-envelope calculation is now much more challenging, Morningstar says.
Why Australia's financial advisers will be more valuable in 10 years, not less
Despite a rise of innovative solutions across the wealth management sector, financial advisers will prove valuable for in-person advice.
What America's $1 trillion direct indexing boom tells us about the evolution of MAs
What Australia can learn from direct indexing, a tax-efficient form of managed accounts utilised in the US.
Stonepoint is another lesson in fund governance and investor protection
The demise of the Stonepoint Capital Fund may have gone under the radar for many, but proves an important point for independent governance when examined.
