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Zurich appoints national head of sales

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has appointed Andy Marshall head of Sales Strategies and Research, Life Risk. He will be responsible for developing, promoting and delivering Zurich's life insurance proposition in conjunction with distribution ...

Actuaries Institute names 2014 president

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Daniel Smith has been named president of the Actuaries Institute for 2014 as the body announces a number of leadership changes for the New Year. Smith, who takes over from former president John Newman, will be joined by former Actuary of the Year Estelle ...

Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

Frontier research alliance expands to UK and Europe

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
Specialist investment advisory business Frontier Advisors and Segal Rogerscasey, founding members of the Global Investment Research Alliance (GIRA), have expanded their reach adding a London-based consulting firm. Investment, actuarial and risk management ...

China heading for debt disaster, sure sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
You can set your watch on it! Like clockwork the start of the New Year brings with it a brand new stick to bash China with. China has become the world's tallest poppy. It must be cut down! China was bashed in 2010 with the social unrest stick back in ...

APRA issues warning on group risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Insurance regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a warning that while the overall life insurance is in reasonable financial shape, sustained pressure on the group risk sector is becoming a strategic threat that insurers ...

Government releases FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has made public the reforms to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation, which include the removal of the opt-in requirement and the streamlining of fee disclosure statements. The amendments are in line ...

IFM invests $1.3 billion in LNG facility

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013
IFM Investors has agreed to invest around $1.3 billion of equity funding in a natural gas liquefaction and liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading facility in Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas. The project, planned by Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P., will ...

Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
Challenger Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) actuarial certificate provider Bendzulla Actuarial. According to Challenger, Bendzulla has a market share of more than 50% serviced through relationships ...

Managed accounts take the hassle out of hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
Institutional investors can gain greater flexibility at a lower cost and without the need to manage their investments as closely by using a multi-strategy managed account solution for their hedge fund allocation, according to Permal senior vice president ...