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Advisers award top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... category, Investment Bonds, with data drawn from Plan For Life's 2008 Insurance Bonds Report. The inaugural winner was CommInsure for both the Investment Bonds Award and the Insurance Investment Bonds Award. Lifeplan took the gong for the Friendly Society ...

Insurance bonds renaissance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... bonds are no longer just "traditional" capital guaranteed or balanced option investments. Product providers such as CommInsure, ING, AMP and MLC are increasingly tweaking their products to have access to different asset classes such as Australian equities ...

FirstChoice platform upgrade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... the Realindex RAFI funds, the FirstChoice Emerging Markets multi manager option was also added to the platform. The CommInsure insurance product's application form is now simpler and shorter, which means it can be approved faster for clients who answer ...

Avanteos launches managed account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... Clients can tailor investments based on sustainable, ethical or other considerations. Avanteos also teamed up with CommInsure to launch its new insurance product, LifeProtect, in November.

ANZIIF launches website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... an issue that is vital to the long term success and development of the industry." The program is sponsored by QBE, CommInsure, Munich Re, Sparke Helmore in Australia, IAG NZ, Vero and AMI in New Zealand.

Barclays UK takes life insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... approach of many top Australian insurers which use financial advisers to provide life insurance. In May, Clive Levinthal, CommInsure general manager of life, super and investment products, said the firm was not looking to launch a direct to market online ...

Once lost, now found: super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... larger balances are contacted to confirm the proposed transfer," Warren Fawcett, manager of AUSfund said. Meanwhile, CommInsure's SuperTrace Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) has reunited over 100,000 members with their super and paid out almost $147 million ...

SuperTrace cuts fees and jazzes website

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... SuperTrace Customer Contact Centre and start the withdrawal process immediately. Simon Swanson, managing director of CommInsure, pegged the ERF's latest initiatives as the fund's latest endeavours to help Australians hunt down and consolidate their retirement ...

Franchise banking attract planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... we're able to do that because of the knowledge the bank has got in financial planning across the group such as at CFS, CommInsure for example," said Stewart Creighton, the head of the unit. Creighton said the idea to set up a specialist planning unit ...

CommInsure halves insurance PDS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
CommInsure has reduced the product disclosure statement (PDS) of its Personal Insurance Portfolio product by half, slashing 28 pages off the document. The firm's Personal Insurance Portfolio PDS has been reduced from 56 to 28 pages and, in addition ...