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Direct insurance not a competitor of retail: Zurich

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Direct insurance is offering a different product than advised insurance and is not competing directly for its market share, according to Zurich Life head of Marketing Richard Dunkerley. "The statement that direct insurance is cheaper than retail insurance ...

Direct insurance races for advised market share

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Direct insurance is already having an impact on the advisory market share, with direct companies offering similar products at a lower cost. Direct risk companies currently hold 24.2% of the market share, right behind non-aligned dealers, which hold ...

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...

Sunsuper creates product management roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... roles are focused at designing, developing and releasing new products in response to members' needs in superannuation, insurance, retirement and advice. Ben Hillier will manage the fund's superannuation and retirement products team. With more than 15 ...

Retirees could benefit from a vibrant annuities market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... dementia or not," he said. But despite the ethical arguments for pensions over lump sums, Asher said superannuation and insurance providers' hands are tied by government regulations. The Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act regulations are "extremely ...

netwealth's advice group moves advice ops

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... adviser desire, the group have now inked deals with multiple insurers. The group has added to its AIA Australia group insurance arrangement with TAL. In May it was announced that netwealth's FUM had reached the the $4 billion mark, following a year-to-date ...

Bravura appoints head of pre-sales

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... and delivering value propositions, helping customers build business cases for wealth management and modernising the insurance platform. "[Prins] brings deep subject matter expertise in core systems migrations with extensive project experience, including ...

NDIS does not replace life insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
The national DisabilityCare system, formerly known as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), does not replace the need for life insurance, argues AIA Australia (AIA) in a briefing note to advisers. "When the concept of the DisabilityCare scheme ...

UniSuper nearly ready to award $25m insurance contract

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
Industry superannuation fund UniSuper is in the final stages of a tender process for its insurance arrangements, with announcement of the new insurer imminent. UniSuper chief executive Terry McCredden told Financial Standard that the review was triggered ...

Affinia appoints new national manager

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... of choice for specialist risk professionals in Australia. Sitparan Gnanendran has been appointed the specialist life insurance advice dealer group's new national manager, advice. As national manager, advice, Gnanendran will be oversee technical risk ...