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Ironbridge to acquire 100% of Bravura

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... Ironbridge subsidiary company Stockholm Solution proposal to acquire 100% of the global supplier of wealth management, life insurance and software applications. Ironbridge already owns a significant number of Bravura shares and it has offered to buy ...

TOWER announces $70 million special dividend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... Zealand insurer TOWER plans to return an initial $70 million of capital to shareholders following the sale of its life insurance business in May this year. TOWER sold the majority of its life insurance to business to fellow Kiwi life insurer Fidelity ...

Aussies mainly concerned about super and retiring

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... for the website and topic experts blogged on key issues relating to retirement saving, superannuation, debt and life insurance. Clients also used Twitter to address financial advisers and over 250 tweets with the hashtag #FPWeek were written.

Cbus to divest tobacco holdings as stocks fall from highs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... a sustainable business model and opens Cbus to investment and reputation risk. It added that 6.6% of claims for life insurance from Cbus members over recent years are as a result of lung cancer.

AMP Capital sets foot in China

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... local asset management company. AMP Capital will partner with China Life Asset Management, a subsidiary of China Life Insurance, the country's largest insurance group, institutional investor and corporate pension manager. China Life AMP Asset Management ...

YBR posts loss but boost in wealth management

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... the start of the fin year to $136 million at the end. YBR insurance also grew as it launched a branded personal life insurance offering underwritten by Zurich in the second half of the year. Over $200,000 in new premium was written by the network in ...

ClearView reports 92% drop in profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... figure at $16 million, compared with $19.2 million. ClearView put the disappointing figures down to "adverse term life insurance claims experience", loss of investment earnings due to a lower cash rate, dividend pay outs, and a higher effective tax rate. ...

APRA to focus on reinsurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... four different forms that will be part of the insurers' stress testing. Over 25% of Australian actuaries work in life insurance and their traditional tasks involve determining premium scales, designing new types of policies, assessment of risks, formulation ...

Reporting season reveals insurance black spots

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... businesses, while insurers (and reinsurers) flounder. AMP, having warned investors back in May that the cost of life insurance claims was set to hit revenue to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, reported a 52% drop in earnings within its wealth ...

Investment income fuels life insurance sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
Life insurance industry figures released today by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) paint a picture of a robust industry albeit one preparing for some adjustment. In its June 2013 life insurance statistics report the regulator has ...