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Advisers endorse rural insurance top guns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Rabo Financial Advisers (RFA) is set to boost its risk insurance relationships with Aviva, Asteron and CommInsure after they were identified as leaders in providing risk insurance to primary producers and regional businesses. The financial planning ...

Macquarie grows Life team

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Macquarie Life today announced three new additions to its national team. Daniel Longden has been appointed head of product and actuarial, Suzanne Evans as senior underwriter and Robert McNeil as business development manager, Queensland. Longden joins ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was buoyed at noon by gains in local mining and energy shares after base metal and oil prices ended higher on international markets overnight. At 1213 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15 points, or 0.28 per cent ...

ADPIA lobbies against relic property laws

The peak body for direct property investors has called for each State Revenue Office in Australia to standardise stamp duty and get rid of archaic property trust regulations. Linden Toll, the president of the Australian Direct Property Investment Association ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply higher as Wall Street surged after The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) cut its main lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 per cent. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher according to the March SPI futures index, and after New York staged a late rally to come back from falls that followed the Bear Sterns fire sale. In London overnight, base metals were significantly ...

MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Homegrown private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the ...

DIY investors not happy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Investors are increasingly dissatisfied with the products of their DIY investment brokers, new research by Wealth Focus shows. Figures from the new DIY Investor Report found that investors were "relatively unhappy" with their main DIY investment broker ...

BT Insurance names head of life

BT Financial Group has appointed Phil Hay, formerly of MLC, as Head of Life Insurance, and promoted Sandra Hill to Head of Customer Relations and Operations. The appointments were the first leadership appointments to be made since Mark Smith was named ...

Plan for Life and AFA award life industry Who's Who

Annuity and insurance heavyweights took centre stage at the Plan For Life / AFA Life Company of the Year 2007 Awards held in Sydney yesterday. CommInsure won the two top accolades, 2007 Life Insurance Company of the Year Award and the 2007 Annuity Provider ...