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ANZ appoints former Westpac insurance boss

... March 14. Previously, he was the chief manager in distributed and aggregated products for Westpac's general insurance business. At Westpac, he headed the implementation of the Financial Services Reform Act complianc across the bank's consumer and business ...

NAB hands Asian life insurance to AXA

In a deal worth more than half a billion dollars, National Australia Bank (NAB) will divest its MLC life insurance businesses in Hong Kong and Indonesia to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). The $575 million sell-off is part of NAB's ongoing business ...

S&P react to TOWER PrefSure deal

... TOWER group (TOWER) has bought PrefSure Life Ltd (PrefSure) to shore up and grow their master trust and life insurance business. S&P have left TOWER's ratings unchanged for now at 'BBB' following the deal with a boost to a 'BBB+' rating, expected upon ...

PrefSure deal sees Tower focus on master trusts

... leverage the group into the master trust and industry fund sector. "TOWER has a strong position in individual life insurance business lines whereas PrefSure's strength is in the key Master Trust sector," he said. Minto added, "There is strong potential ...

Australian Unity strong results drives push to demutualise

... new products and further investment. A before-tax profit of $2.3 million was also achieved for the general insurance business. Mead says the company had been strengthened in a number of ways during the year, including the recruitment of senior executives ...

AUI bolsters its product and strategy arm

... National's wealth management arm where her focus was on the development and implementation of strategy for the life insurance business. Prior to joining AUI Dullahide was National Investments' platform operations manager. In the newly created position ...

Western Pacific buys more of MMC and Select

... the insurance sector. "The next major initiative in our growth plan will involve leveraging our scale in the insurance business and finding a partner who can assist in achieving our growth objectives in this area," says Pritchard. Over the last 12 months ...

Bravura to acquire software developer

Financial software provider Bravura Solutions is set to acquire another software provider, the Tacit Group with the sale expected to be complete in early June 2005. The merged entity will oversee the Australia and New Zealand markets and will include ...

Commonwealth splits CFS business into investments and products

... development functions of the business. At the same time the bank has moved out the financial advisory functions and insurance business from within the bank structure to sit under CFS. The split was announced by Commonwealth chief executive David Murray ...

Browne moves from Amazon to AMP

... has appointed Michael Browne to the newly created role of head of business development and products for its insurance business. Browne previously spent six years with MLC's insurance business and was most recently involved in MLC's Amazon project. Browne ...