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Better insurance tech from IRESS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
CommInsure and IRESS have unveilled a new service that includes real-time insurance premium validation and the delivery of in-force policy information to the adviser desktop. The initiative will allow advisers to confirm the premium returned by IRESS' ...

More mortgage brokers to sell insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
First Aussie John announced he would "shake up" the insurance market, now Mortgage Choice is boosting its presence in life insurance too. Independently-owned mortgage house Mortgage Choice announced the partnership with Lifebroker, which claims to be ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... government has no plans to appoint Mr Costello to the Future Fund,'' Swan was reported by The Australian to have told Channel Nine. The way the story was reported however highlights a deeper concern in that even senior political commentators have a poor ...

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... markets. Over the next 12 months, 30 per cent said they will very likely invest in Australian equities. The second highest channel for new money is cash or cash-like investments, with a high 19 per cent "very likely" to put more into them despite cash ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The $14 billion Emergency Services & State Super has closed the doors of its cash plus strategy six months after the introduction of its pure cash option. According to a statement on the ESSSuper website, the fund closed its cash plus option to new ...

Insurance shopping goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
More people are hopping online to get insurance, a new survey shows. A new Allianz survey of 325 of its clients noted that over 80 per cent of its clients did not want to see a financial planner to take out life insurance. The main reasons for choosing ...

AMP posts strong super and risk flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... first quarter of this year to $210 million on the back of strong flows to the firm's employer-sponsored superannuation channel and risk insurance business. AMP Capital Investors, the bank's investment management division, recorded a 15 per cent fall ...

Advisers eye annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... income", says Lisa Plotnick, associate director and lead author of this report. "We see many firms looking at the RIA channel as an opportunity for annuity distribution. However, we don't see RIAs changing the way they view deferred annuities mainly ...

UK consumers embrace online comparison tools

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
New research on UK consumers shows they are rapidly embracing online finance price comparisons, with big implications for how firms market their products. According to the Datamonitor research, online price comparison websites are now the most trusted ...

Austock appoints Youssef

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... relationships with stockbrokers, financial planners, banks and other business groups. He is also a frequent commentator on Channel 9, ABC, Bloomberg and CNBC. As head of private clients, Youssef is charged with building Austock Group's private client ...