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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
The Australian markets have received strong, negative leads from overseas for trading on Friday, despite Wall Street being closed for a holiday. At 0731 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 41 points lower ...

TOWER wins key mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
TOWER Australia Group caps the year with major insurance wins, dividends up 15 per cent and new business up 54 per cent. The group also saw life inforce premium up 15 per cent to $784 million for the year to September thanks to its indiviudal life sales. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received positive leads into Thursday trading, as Wall Street posted gains on positive jobs and home sales data. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 24 points higher ...

ASFA elects new chair, board members

ASFA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Tony Lally, head of Sunsuper, has been elected as the new ASFA Chair, replacing former chair Greg Healy. Lally, who joined the ASFA board in mid-2008, replaces Healy, who stood down after relocating to Singapore earlier this year. Several new ASFA Board ...

Under 30s shine in Future Leaders Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Julia Feher from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) won this year's IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards for her paper recommending a "pay for use" financial planning business model. The IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards program ...

FSP reviews insurer line up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Dealer group Financial Services Partners is reviewing its preferred risk carriers - including CommInsure, ING and Tower - through its annual adviser survey. A press statement from the firm noted that FSP's survey looks at the services provided by AIG ...

Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
The life insurer who won the year's largest insurance mandate from a super fund, Tower Australia, has tapped the UK market's latest trends to boost its flagship Accelerate platform. Tower is unveilling its new Accelerated Protection platform - an improved ...

AIA tops life risk inflows chart

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... enjoyed a 21.6 per cent boost over the same period, with AIA reporting an enormous 193.1 per cent increase, followed by Tower (27.6 per cent), ING (24.4 per cent) and BT/Westpac (18.7 per cent). Meanwhile premium inflows into the group risk market grew ...

SuperChoice signs TOWER super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
TOWER Australia joins a growing list of corporate super fund providers that have switched from doing choice-of-fund admin internally to outsourcing the role to clearinghouse specialist, SuperChoice. Under the deal, SuperChoice will handle contributions ...

Tower to upgrade Accelerate platform

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Fresh from winning a $600 million insurance mandate from AustralianSuper, Tower is now improving its retail insurance offering with the October launch of its new Accelerated Protection platform. Tower is expected to unveil a revamped insurance product ...