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Zurich adds two to tele-underwriting team

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... other insurers, Zurich has seen more financial advisers use tele-underwriting to provide risk advice to more clients. The channel means advisers do not need to complete customers' personal statements and instead Zurich speaks to them directly. "Zurich's ...

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

From super funds to banks and financial planning groups, the industry is divided between those that are pinning their future growth and consumer engagement strategy through walk-in financial advice shops and those that are sticking with a more traditional ...

HOSTPLUS and ME Bank open shop

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
HOSTPLUS and ME Bank have opened a full service retail outlet on the Gold Coast, marking the super fund and the bank's foray into providing traditional banking services - but with superannuation advice available, too, if their customers request it. ...

School staff take up super advice: NGS Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
Teachers are practicing what they preach, taking up the free financial advice services offered by NGS Super at an unprecedented rate in the last six months - proof that not everyone's indifferent about their retirement savings. In May last year, NGS ...

Australians frustrated with fin companies

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
Australia's finance industry, including financial services, has the highest customer turnover following poor customer service, compared with telecoms, internet service providers and insurance, new research shows. A survey of 702 respondents by RightNow ...

Broking firms back Suncorp update

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... distribute risk insurance products directly through GIO, AAMI and APIA while continuing to develop its financial advice channel business. Geoff Summerhayes, chief executive at Suncorp Life, announced the strategic move to simplify its business model ...

Rainmaker and endgame launch new marketing excellence award

... integrated campaigns use multiple channels/touch points to deliver the marketing message, with careful thought behind channel selection. The benefits to campaign effectiveness cannot be underestimated," said McGirr. All nominations must be received by ...

FPA sets up Treasury taskforce

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... that affect planners, noted a press statement. The FPA's new initiative is aimed at ensuring members had a "dedicated channel" for their input into helping shape the body's response to government reform proposals. "We've already been hearing loud and ...

Guardian launches wrap platform

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... Portfolio Solutions, a platform that gives investors, who have reached their super contribution limit, an alternative channel for their savings. The wrap platform is a white label version of Colonial First State FirstWrap that provides investment options ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... 50.05 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 6,175.05 points. News of the News Corp bid for BSkyB sent shares in the German pay TV channel Sky Deutschland, where News Corp holds a 45.2 per cent stake, up more than 18 per cent on speculation Murdoch might try the ...