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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... market, up 38 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $33.94. Health care stocks took the brunt of broad-based losses, down 2.1 per cent. Medical equipment manufacturer ResMed fell 3.1 per cent to $2.86, with CSL Ltd also down 2.3 per cent to $29.34. Financial stocks ...

Zurich drops PMAR to speed up cover

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... insurance upgrade to streamline underwriting for greater adviser flexibility. Zurich has dropped compulsory Practising Medical Attendant's Report (PMAR) for death cover up to $5 million, TPD cover up to $3 million and income replacement cover up to $15,000 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... BHP Billiton rose 0.46 per cent to $34.71. Typically defensive health care stocks outperformed, up 2.13 per cent, with medical diagnostic company Sonic Healthcare gaining 3.63 per cent to $11.70. The financial sector was driving the market higher, recovering ...

Van Der Wielen heads to UK group Friends Life

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... Gavin Pearce. Search for a permanent replacement is underway. Van Der Wielen was previously managing director Clerical Medical, Halifax Life and European Financial Services, based in London. Prior to that, he held senior wealth management positions locally ...

ANZ launches new life cover for over 50s

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... accidental death after one year and aims to pay life benefits within two business days. Customers are not required to undergo medical tests or health questions to get ANZ 50+ Life Cover, which can be bought over the phone. According to Rice Warner Actuaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... 5.4 per cent, the most of the 30 companies that make up the Dow average. The industrial giant, which makes Scotch tape, medical equipment and many other products, said the disaster in Japan and sinking demand for LCD televisions hurt its results. The ...

Medicare to handle compassionate super payouts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... spokesman. The criteria on which people can access super on compassionate grounds prior to preservation age still includes medical treatment, medical transport, modifications necessary for the family home or motor vehicle due to severe disability. Funds ...

AMP senior shuffle

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Asset Management in London and as a non-executive investment adviser to both the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Medical Foundation in London. Additionally, Brown was head of European equity research at Credit Suisse Asset Management from 2001 ...

Super fund leaps into life stage insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... trigger event will be able to access a higher level of death and total permanent disability insurance cover without any medical evidence. Peter Lewis, head of retirement products at Aon, said trigger events included taking out a first home loan, marriage ...

Government plants $60m innovation funding seed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF), the government has invested $20 million in each of Carnegie Venture Capital, the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund and Southern Cross Venture Partners. Private investors are matching the government's investment ...