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Changes at AIA
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Changes at AIA

AIA has announced changes to its senior management team with a key leader leaving.

Thu, Aug 25th 2022 09:40AM
Lack of understanding around ACC worrying

Lack of understanding around ACC worrying

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Report helps advisers grow their businesses

Report helps advisers grow their businesses

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Partners Life sold: Price $1 billion

Partners Life sold: Price $1 billion

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Cigna admits making error

Cigna admits making error

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Tough year but Asteron happy with its results

Tough year but Asteron happy with its results

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How Tower is growing its adviser and referrals network

How Tower is growing its adviser and referrals network

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Partners Life tells advisers more about the ‘claims squeeze’

Partners Life tells advisers more about the ‘claims squeeze’

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AIA teams up with online platform

AIA teams up with online platform

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Fidelity Life boosts non-medical limits as part of new underwriting package

Fidelity Life boosts non-medical limits as part of new underwriting package

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Why rapid advances in medicine and technology are pushing up premiums for life and health cover

Why rapid advances in medicine and technology are pushing up premiums for life and health cover

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Cigna now Chubb

Cigna now Chubb

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Uptick in litigation predicted if Insurance Contracts Bill passes in current form

Uptick in litigation predicted if Insurance Contracts Bill passes in current form

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[WATCH] Now is not the time to sell an advice business

[WATCH] Now is not the time to sell an advice business

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[OPINION] Insurance overhaul long overdue, yet consumer benefits by no means assured

[OPINION] Insurance overhaul long overdue, yet consumer benefits by no means assured

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Fidelity Life rolls out marketing toolkit

Fidelity Life rolls out marketing toolkit

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Latest Comments
[OPINION] Tax Efficiency vs. Real Returns: Are you being penny wise and pound foolish?
On a slightly different matter. A friend of mine owned a business and made enough to afford to purchase a property (office cum warehouse) for his business. I asked why don't he buy instead of rent? He said his accountant told him to rent, don't buy, to reduce his tax. He heeded his accountant's advice. 30 years later, he retired, his cash savings was nowhere near the value of the property he didn't buy. Had he purchased the property, at least he has two options - rent out the property for his retirement income or sell it and realise the capital gain (no tax) which far exceeds the tax savings during his business trading years. Penny wise pound foolish, eh?
5 days ago W K
[OPINION] Tax Efficiency vs. Real Returns: Are you being penny wise and pound foolish?
Great article and points made, Andy. I had to explain recently and demonstrate these very points to a very senior professional trustee. I was instructed by the trustee to "make the portfolio tax efficient." I guess, from a CA point of view, that made sense to her. As luck would have it, the newly appointed CA completing the accounts didn't quite see it that way and agreed with my advice and your article.
5 days ago John Milner
Lessons for life insurers from 1918
Remember that New Zealand did not have bodies overwhelming morgues in the midst of the pandemic so we didn't see a spike in deaths - unlike a lot of other countries. Hence no panic to get cover.
6 days ago Mark Stone
Competing with fintechs the way to go
If an adviser has their own FAP license, why would they risk having their client’s data (basically their whole business) held in an aggregator owned CRM?
1 week ago Valkyrie Vulcan
Should KiwiSaver hardship applications be centralised?
It should be that onerous. It's a retirement scheme. not a fix the car scheme not a bail out your bad choices scheme the temptation for it to become so grows as balances grow. And KiwiSaver reules must resist it. Every year there will be a new record for withdrawals, because there will be more in it to take, and more people looking to use it. That's not a failure, that means it works.
1 week ago Regan Thomas