{"id":32552,"date":"2016-03-01T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=32552"},"modified":"2016-03-01T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:12:59","slug":"fsc-life-insurance-conference-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/03\/01\/fsc-life-insurance-conference-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC Life Insurance Conference 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fsc.org.au\/events\/fsc-life-insurance-conference-2016\/home-page.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2016 FSC Life Insurance Conference<\/a>, to be held in Sydney on 16 March, has become a significant annual industry event, and will include the return of Life Insurance and Advice Working Group Chair, <strong>John Trowbridge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32557\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/John-Trowbridge.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32557\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/John-Trowbridge.jpg\" alt=\"John Trowbridge will return to the FSC Annual Life Insurance Conference in 2016, to consider the future life insurance industry landscape...\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Trowbridge&#8230; will return to the FSC Annual Life Insurance Conference in 2016 to consider the future life insurance industry landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While focusing on broad-based issues impacting its member life companies, this Conference also holds great interest for both licensees and individual advisers, given the nature of the topics to be discussed and the significant impact these issues can and will have on dealer groups, individual advisers (particularly risk-focused advisers) and their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s Conference witnessed the unveiling of the much anticipated Trowbridge Report, including John Trowbridge&#8217;s controversial remuneration reform model. He returns this year as a panel member, in his capacity as Chair of the now closed Life Insurance and Advice Working Group, and will share his views, together with those of CommInsure MD, <strong>Helen Troup<\/strong>, former Suncorp Life CEO and now APRA member, <strong>Geoff Summarhayes<\/strong> and ASIC Deputy Chair, <strong>Peter Kell<\/strong> as they each consider the industry landscape for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported last week, the impending Life Insurance Code of Practice will be a headline topic at this year&#8217;s Conference (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/02\/23\/life-insurance-code-of-practice-under-the-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Life Insurance Code of Practice Under the Spotlight<\/a>), while another significant and relevant topic under discussion is consideration of the life insurance sector as a disrupted industry, where the Conference program asserts the Australian life insurance industry is currently at the centre of a &#8216;prefect storm&#8217; in terms of elements such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Value chain disruption<\/li>\n<li>Convergence of insurance products<\/li>\n<li>Interest rate cycles<\/li>\n<li>Competitive tensions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The future of advice in life insurance is also a critical discussion topic that will hold great relevance for dealers and advisers, during which a panel including life company and dealer group voices will discuss what the future of life insurance advice will look like, given impending regulatory and market changes.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas to be covered at this year&#8217;s Conference, which will be presented under the theme of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/fsc.org.au\/events\/fsc-life-insurance-conference-2016\/home-page.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Know Your Industry<\/a>&#8216;, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helping consumers requiring additional support: How life insurers can support their workforce to deliver best practice service quality for customers who require additional support in areas including:\n<ul>\n<li>Buying<\/li>\n<li>Underwriting<\/li>\n<li>Claims<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mental health: How can life insurance companies ensure best practice of dealing with applicants and claimants with mental health issues?<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring the sustainability of the group insurance market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested advisers, dealer group staff, life company contributors and other industry stakeholders can <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/2016-Life-Insurance-Conference-Program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">click here<\/a> to access more details about the 2016 FSC Life Insurance Conference program, an event which also includes the FSC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fsc.org.au\/events\/fsc-life-insurance-conference-2016\/awards-dinner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">annual gala awards dinner<\/a> to be held on the evening prior to the Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 FSC Life Insurance Conference, to be held in Sydney on 16 March, has become a significant annual industry event, and will include the return of Life Insurance and Advice Working Group Chair, John Trowbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,241,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-compliance-regulation","category-conferences-and-events","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}