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Club Super partners CommInsure

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
CommInsure, the insurance arm of Commonwealth Bank, has been appointed to provide insurance for Club Super. Club Super is the industry super fund for sporting and recreational clubs and associated industries. It has around $480 million in assets under ...

CFS reveals retirement income strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... retirement portfolios for clients. CFS general manager of retirement Nicolette Rubinzstein said that Challenger and CommInsure annuities will be available on the platforms later this year. "At the moment that's our current product range, but we very ...

CommInsure recruits BT exec for head of annuities role

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
CommInsure has appointed former BT Financial Group acting head of general insurance to the newly-created position of head of annuities for its superannuation and investment business. George Lytas will be in charge of delivering growth to CommInsure's ...

AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... overall Platinum Award and the Trauma award, and was a finalist in the award categories of Service Quality and Term/TPD. CommInsure and BT Financial Group were runners up for the Platinum Award. "The Platinum Award recognises the insurer that has shown ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The period between separation and divorce is fraught with estate planning dangers, CommInsure national technical manager Alex Koodrin explained at a recent Financial Standard Technical Services Forum in Sydney. Koodrin said that the average time period ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
The market share consolidation of Australia's four biggest wholesale insurers (TAL, AIA Australia, CommInsure and Metlife) is offset by declining profits in the long-term, according to Rice Warner's Wholesale Risk Insurance Report. The "big four" group ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... of change to grow their businesses than are Australian-owned insurers. Illustrating this, while locally-owned AMP, CommInsure, NAB/MLC, OnePath, BT/Westpac and Suncorp grew their premium inflows by an average 6.4%, overseas-owned TAL, AIA, MetLife and ...

Insurance inflows up 12.9% in a year

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... market share of 26.2% and inflows of $1,400.36 million, followed by TAL Group, which saw inflows of $1,304.27 million. CommInsure Group is still Australia's third largest insurer by premium inflows, but its market share went from 13.3% in September 2013 ...

IFS Insurance Solutions MD appointed at CommInsure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... Solutions managing director has been appointed head of industry and public sector funds, wholesale life insurance at CommInsure. Robert Nunez will join CommInsure in early 2015 and will be focusing on addressing "the key drivers and issues facing the ...

CFS adds annuities to platforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Challenger and CommInsure annuities will soon be available on Colonial First State's retail platforms FirstChoice and FirstWrap. The annuity products will be added to the two platforms in mid-2015. It will be the first time an annuity product is made ...