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LMW Invest teams up with Denison

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
LMW Invest and The Denison Group have formed a joint venture aimed at delivering traditional syndicated property investments to retail investors. An eight level office tower in North Sydney, with forecast fund yield of 9 per cent, is the first building ...

Industry backs Lifewise campaign

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and the insurance industry's online life insurance awareness campaign, Lifewise, has received overwhelming support. The Lifewise campaign centers around the program's website - www.lifewise.org.au ...

AIG Life adds to group team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
AIG Life appointed Craig Extrem as national manager, client markets - group insurance. He joins AIG Life from TOWER Australia where he worked as head of sales - group risk since April 2006. Extrem also worked at Prefsure, Lumley Life and Colonial in ...

REST deploys $300m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
REST Superannuation pours $300 million into the credit markets through two new fund manager mandates. REST invested $150 million in Credit Suisse's Syndicated Loan Fund, while $100 million was deployed into the Stone Tower Offshore Credit Fund during ...

Tech unclogs insurance bottlenecks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Insurance underwriting will become less of a headache for financial planners after key insurers introduced automated underwriting into their products, a major leap from the days of error-prone rate books and simple quotation software. Only three years ...

Advisers award top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Asteron and Aviva were the joint awardees of this year's 2008 Life Insurance Company of the Year Award by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life. Challenger, which last year acquired the annuities portfolio of AXA, was named the ...

Tower appoints distribution head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
TOWER Australia has appointed Patrick O'Connor as head of distribution for the Retail Life business. O'Connor will report to the company's chief executive Retail Life, Brett Clark. O'Connor has held a number of roles within TOWER since joining the company ...

REST ramps up credit exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) extended the fund's credit exposure by investing $150 million in the Credit Suisse Syndicated Loan fund and $100 million Stone Tower's Offshore Credit fund in December. Damian Hill, REST chief executive ...

Better insurance for WA LGSP

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
The $1.3 billion WA Local Government Super Plan has upgraded its insurance offering by providing automatic default insurance for all uninsured members. According to a statement on the fund's website, WA LGSP is seeking to address its members' underinsurance ...

Accelerate to improve tele-underwriting

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Tower Australia is looking to upgrade its Accelerate offering in 2009 by fine-tuning its tele-underwriting service to churn out decisions in less than three days. According to Brett Yardley, head of offer strategy at Tower, development projects for ...