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Macquarie buys remaining Olicc shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... edge of new innovation across the technology space," said Darelle Jenkins, Coin managing director. Life insurance firm Asteron, Shadforth Financial group and Professional Investment Services have all adopted Olicc Technologies software since Macquarie ...

Asteron adds to sales team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Asteron appointed former AMP executive, Barry Strapps, as sales manager. Strapps has more than 30 years experience in financial services after working at AMP across a number of divisions including practice management, corporate superannuation and business ...

Tech unclogs insurance bottlenecks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... ease one of the bottlenecks in retail life insurance - the cumbersome underwriting process. Joining the fray this year is Asteron, which spent millions of dollars and ten months on research and development on its electronic insurance application, Lifeguard ...

Advisers award top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Asteron and Aviva were the joint awardees of this year's 2008 Life Insurance Company of the Year Award by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life. Challenger, which last year acquired the annuities portfolio of AXA, was named the ...

Goss heads ING life risk sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... comes to ING from Zurich, where he was national sales manager for Life Risk. Prior to this, Goss held senior positions at Asteron, first as the WA/SA state manager, and then as the national key account manager. Goss starts at ING on the 27th January. ...

Good news at last for AIG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... 'runner-up' award in the CoreData Life Company of the Year 2008, just behind Zurich but beating fellow finalists AXA and Asteron. During the upgrade launch, AIG Life Australia managing director, Stuart Harrison sought to ease financial advisors' concerns ...

ING Aus appoints two senior Life Risk execs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... appointed a new head of product and marketing and head of strategy in Life Risk. Gerard Kerr, formerly head of claims at Asteron will be joining the group as head of product and marketing. He was most recently the chair of IFSA's working group on the ...

Suncorp's Fox retires

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... businesses for National Australia Bank and MLC. "Dennis has played a key role in the growth of brands such as Tyndall and Asteron in Australia and New Zealand. He was also a former chief executive of Royal & Sun Alliance Financial Services," said Suncorp ...

Macquarie grows Life team

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... as senior underwriter and Robert McNeil as business development manager, Queensland. Longden joins Macquarie Life from Asteron, where he worked for four years in actuarial roles, leading actuarial teams internationally. He was also chief financial officer ...

BT Insurance names head of life

... Trustee Claims, Corporate Superannuation and Call Centres. His previous roles include Head of Operations (retail) for Asteron and National Manager, Specialist operations for AXA. Meanwhile, Hill has over 15 years experience in senior roles across BT's ...