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ANZ posts $5bn profit

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... reported that expenses also climbed 7 per cent. The acquisition resulted in ANZ building its wealth management and life insurance sectors and made it a $45 billion fund manager with more than 1,700 financial planners. In the wealth management division ...

Zurich launches iPhone app for life insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Zurich is launching a new iPhone application that allows advisers to provide life insurance quotes to clients - catering to the soaring number of planners who use iPhones and want faster, simpler technology to help clients buy insurance. Zurich is providing ...

Advisers in clean bill of health

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Australians need to take this issue seriously, we recognise that we have to get the message out to the advisers who sell life insurance products," said Morgan. "That knowledge has to lead to action, and while we know that financial advisers are less ...

CommInsure boosts retail life offering

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
CommInsure has unveiled a number of upgrades to its retail life insurance offering, including the ability for customers to use their super fund to pay for their insurance premiums. As part of a partnership between CommInsure and Colonial First State's ...

AIA to hire 27 for customer service

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... been operating in Australia for over 40 years. It is a subsidiary of the AIA Group and a specialist provider of life insurance products. Through a network of more than 320,000 agents and approximately 23,500 employees across 15 geographical markets ...

AMP and Bendigo Bank align

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... wealth solutions, the financial brand said that it wanted to provide greater access to those Australians without life insurance. From October this year, AMP Flexible Lifetime Protection will be rolled out to Bendigo Bank's branches, accessing 1.35 million ...

Countplus buys risk dealer group

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... Compound Investments Limited. As a risk-focused dealer group, one of the benefits of the acquisition includes a life insurance referral agreement to provide specialist advice to clients of Count's network of approx 750 advisers, according to a press ...

Tower wins Virgin Money mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... million insurance deal with AustralianSuper, the firm has signed on a major partnership with Virgin Money to provide life insurance to the retail market. Richard Branson-backed Virgin Money is expanding its financial services suite of products, which ...

Netwealth partners with AIA on insurance

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... advisers with a centralised platform, enabling them to service not only their clients' investment needs but also their life insurance requirements. "Our advisers have been telling us that there is a need to manage a risk product on the Investment Wrap ...

Former AMP adviser gets permanent ban

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... engaging in dishonest conduct by submitting, or causing to be submitted, to AMP Life approximately 55 applications for life insurance and/or income protection insurance. These applications included names of clients who were either not genuine, or in ...