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Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Australian super funds are looking for assets with strong links to CPI inflation as they continue to ramp up their allocation to alternatives, a class that has swelled to US$952 billion among global pension funds. According to a global research study ...

Telstra Super cuts insurance premiums

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... design, reducing the price of income protection, death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover. The fund, insured by TOWER Australia, has cut income protection and death and TPD premiums by up to 40% and 25%, respectively, for eligible Telstra ...

Super funds bidding to stem insurance shortfall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... the real focus around their whole member service experience," said Andrew Boldeman, chief executive officer, Group Life, Tower Australia. "Most industry super funds still have a vast majority of members not understanding the terms of their insurance ...

Praemium V-Wrap platform goes mobile

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... The introduction of this new technology comes just one week after Praemium announced it would partner with life insurer, Tower Australia, to allow Tower to be the sole life insurance product provider on the platform. Tower will pay Praemium an undisclosed ...

Tower, Praemium tackle new frontier

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
Life insurer, Tower Australia, has taken a first step after the proposed FOFA banning of commissions on risk products. The insurance giant has joined with online financial portfolio administrator, Praemium which will give Tower access to its 200 planner ...

TOWER completes share sale

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Life insurer TOWER Australia announced that shares held by the company and its shareholders have now been transferred to TAL Dai-ichi Life Group. TOWER, which will be renamed TAL in November, said in a statement to the ASX that shareholders will be ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
High equity weightings in accumulation superannuation are unsuited to retirement funds, presenting a big opportunity to life offices and super funds to create products that mimic the age pension. Jeremy Cooper, former head of the Superannuation System ...

AFA award launched to encourage female financial planners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), TOWER Australia and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management launched its inaugural AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award in Sydney last night. Tackling the gender gap that exists in retirement savings ...

TOWER Australia changes to TAL

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Life insurer TOWER Australia Group is set to become TAL Limited by November. TOWER is changing its name to TAL after completing extensive research in the lead up to a licence deadline when a five-year agreement with TOWER Limited of New Zealand to use ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... to 356 and Ebos Group rose 6c to 730. Mainfreight rose 3c to 928. TrustPower rose 8c to 760 and Infratil rose 1c to 190. Tower rose 2c to 188. OceanaGold eased 12c to 360 after higher mining and processing costs were a feature of its first-quarter re ...