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Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... were $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 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... caught in a downward trend," he said. In the resources stocks at 1200 AEDT, miner Rio Tinto had lost 92 cents to $59.15 after Swiss-based miner Glencore said it had abandoned its takeover bid, at least for now. BHP Billiton was down 65 cents at $32.59 ...

Ex-Deutsche Bank exec joins Woolworths board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... its 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 ...

BT launches Avaloq-powered platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... Banking Suite. Avaloq is providing what it described as the "core technologies" for BT's new Panorama operating system. The Swiss company said its system will replace "as many as seven heritage systems and provide the more than 13,000 BTFG users with ...

TAL nabs ANZ exec for new finance role

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... direction," 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 ...

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 ...