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Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... market closed almost one per cent higher on Wednesday, buoyed by strong earnings growth from media group News Corp and Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and gains among mining giants. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 42.6 points, or 0.93 per cent ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... be $140 million million with potential to increase to $282 million. Catastrophe-linked securities transfer specific insurance-related risks to the capital markets. The risks relate to exposure to losses arising from natural events, typically hurricanes ...

MLC names insurance leadership team

MLC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
MLC has appointed ex-Aviva Frank Lombardo to key insurance role and promoted David Evans, Andrew Howard, Sean McCormack and Graham Morrison to its insurance leadership team. Evans has been appointed general manager, direct, alliances & transformation ...

Aviva key personnel disbanded after NAB buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
More than six months on since NAB bought Aviva Australia's Navigator platform and insurance business, at least three key Aviva personnel have left or about to leave, while five have assumed new roles within NAB's businesses. Allan Griffiths, chief executive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... later in the European trading day after the US Labor Department reported a smaller than expected fall in weekly jobless insurance claims and orders for US manufactured goods rose by less than expected. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... hearing on Capitol Hill where Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answered questions about the government's rescue of insurance giant American International Group Inc last year. Geithner oversaw the bailout as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New ...

AXA pushes into Romanian life market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
AXA has entered the Romanian life insurance market by purchasing Omniasig Life, which represents $18 million in premiums. Launched in 1997, Omniasig Life sells protection products that are sold through a network of 1,400 life agents. The purchase is ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... agenda among investors. Mercer expects a range of alternative asset classes and strategies to flood the market, including insurance-linked investments such as catastrophe bonds, aircraft leasing investments and social infrastructure.

AIA Australia execs leave

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... executive at AIA Australia, declined to comment on the departures but said he understood McConville has joined another local insurance firm. AIA Australia will announce replacements for these roles and some new appointments will be made to the firm's ...

T. Rowe Price buys $19.7 bn Indian manager

COMPANY RELEAE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... stockholders. These stockholders included the State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda and the Life Insurance Corporation of India. Each of these companies retain an 18.5 per cent stake in UTI Asset Management. UTI Asset Management has ...