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TAL's Affinia hires for growth plans

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
Life insurance group TAL's new risk business Affinia has hired three regional managers to spearhead growth plans, it said yesterday. Affinia said that Jonathon Nguyen, Peter Nielsen and Paul Gaffney would become regional managers, and that each had ...

Affinia kicks off 2013 with three senior hires

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
TAL's new risk-specialist dealer group, Affinia, today announces that it has hired three regional managers to help drive the group's ambitious growth plans. Jonathon Nguyen has joined the team as Affinia's regional manager, Vic, Tas, SA, WA. Nguyen ...

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Australian economists agree that how the country's economy transitions from mining-driven investment to other areas of growth will be the single biggest issue of 2013. Speaking this morning at Financial Standard's annual Chief Economist Forum in Sydney ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Well, well, well...what do you know? Over the past few weeks we've been keeping an eye on that other half of the US fiscal cliff - the budget spending cuts - and the lifting, or not, of the debt ceiling. That's been sorted (well, almost) last night ...

TAL hires new chief actuary

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
Life insurer TAL has appointed Fred Rowley as its new chief actuary. He will lead the company's actuarial business providing advice to the TAL executive team and board around the group's core insurance risks. Prior to joining TAL, Rowley was principal ...

Today we wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013

MetLife launches retirement product

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Life Insurer MetLife has launched a new retirement product in partnership with industry super fund MTAA, labeling similar options already on the market "inadequate." MetLife Australia said it would initially only be working with MTAA, with a spokesperson ...

Corporate governance boosted by two-strike rule

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
The 'two-strike rule' on remuneration has improved corporate governance by making company directors more accountable to their shareholders, according to AMP Capital. The investment manager has been a long supporter of the rule which was brought in on ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
"Problems, problems, pro-o-o-o-blems They won't be solved until I'm sure of you-o-ou..." -Everly Brothers That's' right dynamite, the myriad of problems in the financial markets that haunted investors everywhere appears to have gone the way of 2012 ...

Mergers likely for Media Super

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
Sounding out possible mergers with corporate superannuation funds used by media and publishing companies will be a focus for Media Super's incoming chief executive. Yesterday the $3 billion industry fund for the media and publishing sectors announced ...