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Promina's first half shines, full-year to beat guidance

Promina Group has this morning announced its 2004 half year results, highlighting a 51% increase in net profit and stating its full year results are likely to outperform expectations. Promina announced net profit after tax at $204 million to 30 June ...

IAG expects above 12% insurance margins ahead

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2004
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) expects to sustain an insurance margin above 12%, today unveiling a bumper net profit enhanced by huge returns on its sharemarket investments. IAG booked a net profit of $665 million for the year to 30 June, compared ...

Insurers expected to report big profits this week

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2004
The weather and the financial environment have been kind to insurance companies in 2004 but the market wants to see just how kind when heavyweight insurers AMP, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and QBE insurance unveil profits this week. Analysts have ...

Telstra plans special dividend, share buyback

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
Australia\'s largest telecommunications company, Telstra Corp, has delivered a 20% rise in net profit for 2003/04 and unveiled plans for a special dividend in the first half of the current year. Telstra said it intends to pay a special dividend of six ...

After 10 years AXA seeks 100% control of Asia Pacific unit

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2004
Nearly 10 years ago, a $1.1 billion deal gave Europe\'s second biggest insurer, AXA SA, a controlling stake in Australia\'s struggling National Mutual Holdings. Renamed AXA Asia Pacific Holdings and now Australia\'s second largest life insurer, the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2004
The Australian stockmarket is expected to open weaker as US markets struggled to make headway despite a fall in oil prices overnight. As the domestic earnings season begins to pick up steam, investors will begin to focus a little more on domestic factors ...

Court ruling a wake-up for the industry: FPA

... call for the industry. The Victorian Supreme Court recently ruled that CBA was ultimately responsible for the actions of a group of authorised advisers in one of its financial planning businesses in a ruling that leaves the bank facing claims of up to ...

Chief executive Hawker shuffles the deck at IAG

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2004
Chief executive Michael Hawker has shuffled the top ranks at Insurance Australia Group (IAG) in a bid to better align management with the insurer\'s business in 2004. IAG\'s structure has been divided along personal and commercial lines. Personal insurance ...

IAG reveals new internal structure

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2004
Insurance Australia Group today announced a new structure for its Australian insurance operations that is more closely aligned to its core products personal insurance and commercial classes. Australian Personal Insurance includes home, motor, niche ...

Rush on for Immediate Annuities: Aviva

The $1 billion complying Immediate Annuity market will reduce by 50% post 20 September when the current 100% asset test exemption is reduced by half, Aviva said yesterday. Aviva raised its ranking to third from ninth in the annuities market during May ...