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Macquarie chiefs embroiled in German investigation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... share-trading scheme. In a statement released to the ASX on Friday morning, Macquarie Group confirmed German authorities and the Munich District Court were investigating a 2011 transaction involving the $497 billion financial services giant. The German ...

Integrity Life expands senior team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... appointed Heinrich Eder to its board as an independent non-executive director. Eder joins Integrity after a 36-year career at Munich Re Group, where he spent the last decade as managing director of Australasia. He has held various directorships and adviser ...

Industry fund chases insurance giant on climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... billion as a result of natural disasters - a significant increase on the US$439 million paid out in 2016. According to Munich RE, 2017 saw costs climb to the second highest in insurance history, with an increased volume of natural disasters costing about ...

New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Butter Factory, FinTech Australia, and ANZIFF. Also partnering in various ways is QBE, Macquarie Bank, MunichRe, TAS, EY, AUB Group, The Fold Legal, Stone & Chalk, Suncorp, IAG, Envest, RAC Insurance and Oliver Wyman. With its key objective being to ...

AMP prioritises reinsurance, grows advice arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... under the National Mutual Life retail portfolio. The move builds on AMP entering in its first reinsurance agreement with Munich Reinsurance (Munich Re) in October 2016, which Meller said has now been extended from a 50% cover to 60% of the AMP Life retail ...

Global $430bn manager enters Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... the US in 1991, Hamilton Lane has offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Miami, London, Munich, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul - and now Sydney. The firm employs more than 290 people and specialises ...

Property investment manager broadens regional presence

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... individual investors. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm has additional offices in Los Angeles, London, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Munich, Warsaw, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, and Melbourne, employing more than 300 staff.

AMP implements significant insurance changes

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... protection in Australia, AMP announced two key changes: The implementation of a significant reinsurance arrangement with Munich Reinsurance Company of Australia (Munich Re) Strengthening of best estimate assumptions across AMP Life and NMLA effective ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... considering storing cash in vaults. Other reports say some savings banks in Bavaria have also explored storing physical cash. Munich Re chief executive Nikolaus von Bomhard also said this year that the reinsurer would experiment with holding about €10 ...

CommInsure appoints life product and strategy head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... changes have been in motion since early 2016, prior to any allegations of unethical conduct. Crapis joins CommInsure from Munich Re where he held the role of client solutions - retail group, capital and direct insurance for just under two years. Prior ...