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Cash for Christmas

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... found in dormant bank, credit union and building society accounts. Many Australians have also failed to cash in old life insurance policies or indeed claim their money when a compulsory share purchase has taken place. "It is hard to believe people don't ...

AIA expands product suite

AIA AUSTRALIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
AIA Australia improves its Priority Protection product suite following planner feedback. The enhancement means policy holders receive $25,000 payment under the final expenses benefit if the policy holder is a company or business entity. For income protection ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... supporting your nomination today. But since then, you have decided that just about every large bank, investment bank, insurance company, and even some industrial companies are too big to fail. Rather than making management, shareholders, and debt holders ...

AIA looks to list

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
The American International Assurance Company (AIA) is eyeing listing on the stock exchange after its former parent company, American International Group (AIG) paid off more debt owed to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. AIG announced it had reduced ...

Advisers prepare for spike in insurance sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... boost their business quantities with these firms by more than 20 per cent. Overall, 2010 is shaping up as a busy year of insurance activity with more than one in two advisers anticipating an increase in the amount of risk they write - with one in five ...

Equipsuper CEO jumps to Equity Trustees

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
The chief executive of the $4-billion plus Equipsuper, Robin Burns has been appointed managing director of Equity Trustees. Burns is currently CEO of multi employer super fund Equipsuper, which has 49,000 members. He has been chief executive at the ...

GuildSuper cuts fees, boosts insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
GuildSuper is introducing a tiered fee structure and lowering fees for members, while upgrading its death and TPD insurance. GuildSuper, which is owned by Guild Financial Services, has improved members' insurance cover by providing better levels of ...

BT adds 33 new funds to Wrap Essentials

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... cost-effective option for planners serving investors with less complex portfolios, and offers over 80 managed funds, insurance and margin lending, in one secure online account. The new funds have been added across Aussie equities, cash, fixed interest ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... Intesa, UniCredit; Germany -- Deutsche Bank; Netherlands - ING. Japan: Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, Nomura, Sumitomo Mitsui Insurance groups: Aegon, Allianz, Aviva, Axa, Swiss Re, Zurich According to the Financial Times, the FSB will ask these institutions ...

AIG rebrands as Chartis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... relaunched as Chartis throughout Australasia. Chris Townsend, chief executive of Chartis, acknowledged that the image of the insurance giant's parent company, AIG, has been tarnished followings the firm's trials during the GFC. "This is something that ...