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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 ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... dealing with financial crises, the Bank for International Settlements says, urging far more focus on fighting debt. The Swiss-based BIS -- dubbed the central bankers' central bank -- has warned in its annual report that while the global economy was showing ...

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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... stocks ended moderately mixed on Monday, after solid gains ahead of the weekend despite poorly-received US jobs data. The Swiss stock market and franc held up after a shock vote in favour of Switzerland restricting immigration with the European Union. ...

Emerging market turmoil is a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... also set to benefit from any further depreciation of the Australian dollar against the US dollar, Euro, pound sterling and Swiss franc.