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BT Financial and Westpac launch all-in-one super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... group and Westpac have introduced sweeping changes to the way BT provides superannuation-related products. Coombe said BT Super for Life will make it easier for members to have one super fund from their first job through to retirement and every stage ...

Westpac jumps in to save RAMS

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Westpac has thrown a lifeline to troubled home loan lender RAMS Home Loans, offering to buy the franchise distribution arm for $140 million in cash. The purchase will include the RAMS brand, franchise network and associated mortgage origination, servicing ...

Fin services not delivering

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
... an export failure, highlighting that the inquiry really delivered very few tangible macroeconomic benefits. Bill Evans, Westpac chief economist, told the Finsia Government Speaks seminar the industry likes to believe it's one of Australia's most important ...

Bank branches finally start to sell wealth product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... six months and sales of investment products through branches rose 35 per cent during the same period. Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurer, Comminsure reported a 36 per cent increase in its planned profit margin for the year to December. Tony ...

ING Australia disappoints

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... to buy. We don't have a big interest in general insurance. We're mainly associated with banking. We are very interested in life insurance and in wealth administration. But the truth of the matter is that anything that was to be bought has already been ...

Bluestone crossing the Tasman for NZ equity release

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... footprint across the Tasman with the launch of a range of equity release products in the New Zealand market. With backing from Westpac's institutional banking arm, Bluestone is entering a New Zealand market with many characteristics similar to the Australian ...

Risk-Easy debuts with more than 120 dealers in books

... management is a highly specialist field. "The nub of the issue is that they are reluctant to give advice on which of the 25 life companies would suit a client because they don't have enough risk knowledge," he says. As a result, Williams says that 97 ...

AIG Life tops list of life insurers

... Being small and nimble has its advantages as according to a 2005 report detailing the amount that Australians have paid in life insurance risk products, one of the biggest premium revenue insurers this year is also one of the smallest, being AIG Life. ...

NAB takeover of AMP a risk to BT if executed well: BT

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2003
... Chief financial officer Graeme Johnson said BT was a profitable business, with a five per cent market share in corporate super and was now writing more business than AMP in terms of life and income protection.