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Double the super for wealthier Australians

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Well-off Australians are making double the effort to boost their additional superannuation contributions compared to their less wealthy counterparts, a new study has shown. Wealth benchmark's Personal Finances of Wealth Australians - 2008 Institutional ...

ING upgrades OneAnswer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
ING Australia's master trust, OneAnswer, has improved its insurance offering, increasing its total and permanent disablement (TPD) cover by $1 million to $3 million. As part of the upgrade, terminal illness benefits have increased by $1.5 million to ...

Women priced out of life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
More than two in five women with dependents have no life insurance because many perceive purchasing life insurance to be a costly, time-consuming exercise, according to an Allianz report. Meredith Barnes, national development manager, said women either ...

Comminsure motors along

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The bancassurance model is alive and well. The Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance business, Comminsure, has moved to do its own underwriting on its car insurance product because it believes it can get greater value out of its retail network ...

Low frills, high returns

... Hyperion is hardly a household name in the industry. But that's probably because it rose to the top of the food chain 'by accident', given that it is benchmark unaware and has quietly toiled away in the sidelines with a relatively ho-hum high conviction ...

CommInsure in $1.2b insurance bonanza

Commonwealth Bank-owned insurance giant CommInsure will reward around 40,000 of its clients with $1.2 billion in extra life insurance cover under a new loyalty bonus scheme. The Loyalty Bonus Benefit scheme is for customers who have maintained their ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... points. Aberdeen Asset Management Australia's head of fixed income, Bill Bovingdon said the risks in sub-prime "has been an accident waiting to happen." Nonetheless he believes, as many do, that we were due for a correction and this one is nothing to ...

Instos unite for research

... executive Syd Bone. VFMC handles around $40 billion under management and counts Emergency Services Super, the Traffic Accident Commission and the Victorian WorkCover Authority among its clients. Regnan has received a $50 billion engagement mandate, equivalent ...

AIG improves insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... insurance business. The changes come into effect on 2 April and include a range of benefit changes and improvements. A new Accident Only Disability Income Product has been formulated to allow those with re-existing health problems to qualify for income ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

... investment managers selected by the government funds Emergency Services Super, Victorian WorkCover Authority and Transport Accident Commission. Michelle Baltazar