 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decision making models of 'needs awareness', 'information search', through to the 'purchase decision' is fast becoming outdated in the new era of digital consumption.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  ANZ WEALTH | FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017 Focusing on health and wellbeing Read more ANZ WEALTH | FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017 Trust in insurance has been eroded Read more |
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FAAA calls for stronger consumer protections in advice reforms
The Financial Advice Association of Australia (FAAA) has opposed collective charging for "always complex and costly" retirement planning advice and emphasised the need for consumer protection in the provision of super nudges in its submission to Treasury on the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) ...
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The March quarter saw the highest number of financial advisers join the sector in the last seven years to reach 15,982, according to Rainmaker Information.
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MAGDELINE JACOVIDES
FOUNDER AND FINANCIAL ADVISER
MAZI WEALTH
FOUNDER AND FINANCIAL ADVISER
MAZI WEALTH
On top of running a successful practice, Mazi Wealth founder Deline Jacovides is a fierce advocate for closing the superannuation gender gap and has built a highly popular social media presence that takes financial literacy to the next level. She tells Karren Vergara where her passion comes from and how she integrates it all with family life.
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