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Tower shareholders give nod to spin off wealth management arm

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2005
... still has to receive the formality of court approval which is set for 1 February and all relevant conditions in the underwriting agreement with GPG are satisfied. Under the split, AWM will purchase two businesses from Tower - stock broking and financial ...

Browne moves from Amazon to AMP

... involved in MLC's Amazon project. Browne will manage AMP's personal risk insurance, marketing, product management, underwriting and distribution support and will report to AMP's director of risk insurance Anne Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald said AMP will benefit ...

Mapping the way forward

... undergo the painful but necessary process of re-pricing risk in a world where global central banks are no longer underwriting risk-taking". Armitage adds any "position unwinding will be a short-term phenomenon." Armitage's analysis is based on State ...

Zurich supplies more tools for life risk trade

... Life Risk Office Manager Kit consists of a summary of various life risk products, a step-by-step guide to effective underwriting, and instruction on how to use Zurich's interactive website exclusively set up for advisors. The kit is designed to compliment ...

Aust financial system remains in good shape: RBA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2004
... profitability, partly as a result of very low bad debts expense, and the insurance industry had benefited from better underwriting results and a pick-up in investment returns. "A notable development over the course of 2004 has been a turnaround in the ...

QBE Insurance issues $530 mln in convertible securities

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2004
... million of capital required by Lloyds to support an additional STG52 million of capacity for Syndicate 386 for the 2005 underwriting year. QBE purchased the additional capacity at recent auctions for STG13 million. The latest forecast for return on capacity ...

Zurich Financial says first-half net profit up 93%

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2004
... analysts\' expectations. The company said the improved results were due to a significant increase in general insurance underwriting. Zurich Financial does not break out second-quarter figures. Its first-quarter net profit was $US702 million ($A982.85 ...

Asgard reappoints PrefSure; planners premiums down

... to 65 year old salary continuance benefit for employer groups in the near future, as well as streamlined medical underwriting processes."

Cayman Islands insurer banned from trading after ASIC action

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2004
... action brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The Supreme Court of NSW found Triton Underwriting Insurance Agency and Trans Pacific Insurance Corporation, an insurer registered in the Cayman Islands, had traded between ...

QBE buys out ING stake in QBE Mercantile Mutual JV for $740 mln

... ING's 50% stake in the QBE Mercantile Mutual joint venture. The initial purchase price for the general insurance underwriting assets is $740 million with an additional $25 million payable in February 2007 subject to run off of pre-joint venture net insurance ...