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Too much insurance erodes savings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... Super is calling for its members to tackle overinsurance through multiple super accounts, and to avoid the threat of insurance fees eating into their retirement savings. Mark Ashburn, national sales manager for Professional Associations Super, warns ...

IQ Business grows 20pc due to Cooper Review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... superannuation including the largest superannuation administration providers such as Superpartners and AAS and, separately, insurance and banking clients. "We get in and do the heavy lifting instead of doing the strategy work and printing documents that ...

Macquarie buys Rismark stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... Macquarie Group and chairman of Sydney IVF Limited and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. He is also a former director of Insurance Australia Group Limited. Rismark's remaining shareholders include management, Bendigo & Adelaide Bank, QBE Insurance ...

Haddock appointed chairman of ACSRF

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... Australia. His prior board experience includes chairman of Cashcard Australia, chairman of Macarthur Cook, director of AXA Insurance, and Auspace Colonial First State Private Capital. Haddock holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the ...

China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... year." As for sector-by-sector opportunities, she said that her portfolio is overweight consumer, IT, healthcare and insurance stocks. The latest quarterly fund managers survey by HSBC suggest there may have been some profit-taking. According to the ...

Insurance broker gets permanent ban

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
ASIC has permanently banned insurance broker Steven James Ker of Palmyra, Western Australia, from providing financial services. The banning follows an ASIC investigation into Ker's conduct as an authorised representative dealing in general insurance ...

Guardian launches wrap platform

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... wrap platform is a white label version of Colonial First State FirstWrap that provides investment options with risk insurance, Asteron Lifeguard. "Many of our advisers have clients with money to invest and having reached their concessional contribution ...

NZ regulator extends AMP and AXA deadline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... Australia and New Zealand and AXA Asia Pacific is listed on the ASX. Both companies provide superannuation, investment, life insurance and financial planning services in New Zealand.

CommInsure restructures, appoints Browne as GM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
CommInsure has restructured its life insurance business, and appointed former general manager of Financial Wisdom, Tim Browne, as general manager, retail advice. The restructure will incorporate a "line of business" approach for each of its dedicated ...

Northern Trust wins $1.8bn custody mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
Northern Trust won the global custody and investment accounting mandate of $1.8 billion insurance firm, Beazley. Beazley is one of Lloyd's top five managing agents. The firm writes insurance and reinsurance business in the US through Lloyd's syndicates ...