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Macquarie breathes new Life into insurance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
Macquarie Life has made a series of upgrades to its insurance offerings, including the merger of two products and improvements to its underwriting and claims process. Macquarie Life FutureWise, a retail offering available to SMSF investors, has been ...

New judge for AFA Adviser of the Year award

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... Sheils responsibilities include business-to-business and services sector research, with previous experience in the life insurance market working with advisers and developing market segmentation. She has also launched a quarterly omnibus survey of advisers ...

Timbercorp trio face the music

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... funds that Timbercorp finance loaned to investors. The professional indemnity insurers and directors' and officers' insurance providers are as yet still unknown. If the applicants win their case, those insurers will foot at least part of a substantial ...

Telstra Super launches retirement campaign

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... whether it's consolidating multiple accounts, changing investment strategies, looking at estate planning, reviewing insurance needs or getting further education." At the end of the exercise Telstra Super strongly encourages users to make an appointment ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... and a few days in the slammer. He's recently bought his temporary freedom with a US$1 million bail plus a US$5 million insurance bond plus submitting to electronic monitoring 24 hours a day plus having an armed guard at all times. No, it's not about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... few sessions to be muted as investors stay away ahead of key economic data, including the release of a US unemployment insurance claims report. The HSI got a lift from the Dow's 0.65 per cent rise on Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... stop bad legislation from getting through the Parliament." Senator Cormann told the audience of financial advisers and insurance providers that the FOFA opt-in provisions and the banning of commissions on superannuation risk insurance was bad legislation. ...

Food profits to rise: Macquarie

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... land trust. The project would target 230 metric tonnes of timber per hectare. Investors would have to purchase separate insurance sourced by Macquarie to protect them against bushfire, flood and natural disasters, Abraham said, with costs to increase ...

BT adopt retirement strategy with new head

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... with its banking and advisory networks, the firm said it will offer solutions to suit its clients including banking, insurance, superannuation, investments and retirement products. In the role, Greenhalgh will implement BT's retirement strategy and lead ...

Tougher controls for SMSF collectibles

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... be complied with is that the collectibles must be insured in the name of the fund. The government expectation is that insurance policy conditions will place much greater restrictions on the use of such collectibles than any tiny likelihood the fund will ...