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Swanson heads MMC Contrarian

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
CommInsure veteran Simon Swanson has been appointed chief executive of MMC Contrarian, which recently agreed to buy ClearView Retirement Solutions and MBF Life from Bupa Australia. Swanson, who announced his retirement from CommInsure mid last year ...

AMP appoints key insurance personnel

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
AMP Financial Services has appointed Marcello Bertasso as head of underwriting and Warren Page as chief underwriter in its Personal Wealth Protection team. Bertasso joins Personal Wealth Protection from CommInsure. Before this, Bertasso resided in South ...

AFA awards top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), in association with Plan for Life, has announced the winners of this year's AFA/Plan for Life 2009 Life Company of the Year Awards. It was certainly the year for CommInsure, which took not just the Platinum ...

CareSuper ramps up insurance appeal

CARESUPER RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
The $3.2 billion CareSuper is doubling the death and TPD cover for members over 30, and basing its default cover for younger members on their lifecycle commitments. CareSuper, the 200,000 member industry fund for administrative and professional employees ...

CommInsure appoints head of wholesale risk dist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
CommInsure has promoted Mark Woodward, executive manager of retail banking services distribution, to head of wholesale risk distribution. Woodward's appointment is effective immediately. He was previously executive manager of retail banking services ...

Life insurance consolidation could hurt consumers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Australians will suffer the price of higher margin products and limited product innovation if the life insurance market continues to consolidate, warns Tower Australia. Jim Minto, managing director of Tower Australia, urged the government and Australian ...

CFS platforms gain $1.9bn net flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Colonial First State's investment platforms, FirstChoice and Custom Solutions, recorded positive net flows of $1.9 billion for the half year to December 2009, according to the bank's interim numbers. Colonial First State's underlying profit after tax ...

IRESS adds Asteron

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Subscribers to XPLAN Risk Researcher now have the ability to obtain real-time binding quotes relating to Asteron's Lifeguard risk product range. IRESS has included Asteron as an insurer to support IRESS' real-time insurance premium validation functionality. ...

Advisers prepare for spike in insurance sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
Around one third of advisers who use CommInsure and Zurich as their primary risk provider expect their level of business with these firms to increase by more than 20 per cent next year, new research shows. CoreData research also indicates one in five ...

Planners flock to WriteAway

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
CommInsure's electronic application and underwriting service, WriteAway, is proving a hit with the insurer's aligned planners with more than 50 per cent of insurance business being written through the service. WriteAway, which was launched by CommInsure ...