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Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... $243 million. Other life companies that were in the red in APRA's last set of figures were MetLife (-$50 million) and Swiss Re Life (-$137 million), along with reinsurers Reinsurance Group of America (-$71 million) and Munich Reinsurance Company (-$56 ...

Ex-Deutsche Bank exec joins Woolworths board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... financial services business, Woolworths Money. It offers HSBC white-labelled credit cards, and life insurance through Swiss Re. It also offers car, travel, home and pet insurance. On its website, it states: "Into the future we look to bring you exciting ...

Mercer appoints two independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... markets trading with Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust and has gained valuable experience through her board positions with Swiss Re, Q Super, Athletics Australia and St Vincent's Health." "Jan had a successful executive career in banking, capital markets ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... partnering with Australian supermarket giant Coles to distribute life insurance while Woolworths has partnered with insurer Swiss Re and Heath Australia to supplement their group risk super fund distribution. Reinforcing the strategic refocusing, William ...

TAL nabs ANZ exec for new finance role

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... Griffin said. Pfister was also chief financial officer and risk manager at reinsurer RGA, chief financial officer at Swiss Re and chief financial officer at motoring, insurance and financial services group RAC. During her career she has worked in a number ...

AustralianSuper insurance premiums to rise by 35%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... the market condition." He revealed that representatives of the fund and TAL recently travelled to Zurich with reinsurer Swiss Re to look at solutions and strategies to tackle the issues that the sector is facing at the moment. "We need to take a different ...

CommInsure appoints head of investment strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... Henderson Global investors as associate director of investment solutions. Earlier this week, CommInsure appointed former Swiss Re head of life and health in Australia and New Zealand Helen Troup as executive general manager at CommInsure, effective April ...

CommInsure nabs exec from Swiss Re

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
Former Swiss Re head of life and health in Australia and New Zealand has been appointed executive general manager at CommInsure, effective April 7, 2014. Helen Troup will be leading CommInsure and joining the wealth management leadership team, Commonwealth ...

Govt sharpens knife with Swiss tax treaty

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
The government is set an updated tax treaty with Switzerland for the first time since 1980. Federal Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury said the revised treaty would "strengthen administrative assistance between Australian and Swiss revenue authorities ...

BlackRock to buy private equity business

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
US investment manager BlackRock will acquire Swiss Re's European private equity and infrastructure fund of funds franchise, Private Equity Partners. The sale of Swiss Re's US$7.5bn unit is expected to be completed by the end of Q3, according to a statement ...