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Zurich fills life risk role from within

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
Zurich Financial Services Australia Limited (Zurich) filled the regional sales manager life risk for Victoria and Tasmania position after promoting Andy Marshall, to the national role of Head of Sales strategies and research, life risk. Khanh-vy ("KV") ...

MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... year to December 2013. MetLife is Australia's fourth largest group insurer by market share, behind AIA Australia (24.1%), TAL (22.8%) and CommInsure (13.3%). Plan For Life attributed MetLife and NAB / MLC annual growth of group risk premium inflows of ...

Advice industry under-prepared for younger client base

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The professional advice industry is facing a seismic demographic shift that it is ill-prepared for, according to the chief executive of Pershing Advisor Solutions, Mark Tibergien. "The industry is fundamentally built on baby boomers but there is a demographic ...

Towers Watson appoints insurance exec

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Towers Watson has appointed a new insurance consulting practice leader for Australia after Anton Kapel joined AMP as deputy group actuary in January. Paul Caputo will be Towers Watson insurance consulting practice leader. Caputo has over 25 years' industry ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Bloody Vladimir! This must be what US President Barack Obama thought after two-time (2000-2008 and 2012-present) Russian President and two-time (1999-2000 and 2008-2012) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin "asked" and "got" the Russian Parliament's ...

Instos bring ESG perspective to ASX companies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Superannuation funds must better engage with the boards of listed companies in order to bring a longer-term perspective to their decisions, according to the Governance Institute of Australia (GIA). In a new paper entitled, 'Improving engagement between ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Ex-Wallaby captain and chief executive ofA Centric Wealth Phil Kearns tells JamesA Fernyhough that there are more similarities between rugby and financial advice than first meet the eye. For a future Wallabies captain, Phil Kearns' rugby career did ...

A tall tale of a good story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Has Wall Street become weather wearied? Clicking through cyberspace, one would think so as many financial headlines blame disappointing US economic releases for the dip in US equities while we slept. The weather was kept out of it - "U.S. Stocks Fall ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
He's either really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
Positive reactions to earnings reports from several major companies have pushed the share market higher. Morning trade had been mildly positive despite a negative lead from US markets, IG market strategist Stan Shamu said. "We've started off fairly ...