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IFSA appoints Brogden as CEO

IFSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... opposition for three-and-a-half years from 2002 to 2005. IFSA was formed in January 1998 and represents the investment, life insurance and financial services sector with more than $1.2 trillion in funds under management on behalf of ten million Australians. ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... specifically designed for the accounting firm clients of BGL Corporate Solutions Pty Ltd. Services include SMSF investment and insurance, retail and corporate superannuation, AFSL licensing and financial services referral services.

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... Under new rules, super funds can answer questions on switching between investment options, voluntary contributions, life insurance within super and other 'basic' queries that fall within the definition of intra-fund advice. However, the super fund must ...

More mortgage brokers to sell insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
First Aussie John announced he would "shake up" the insurance market, now Mortgage Choice is boosting its presence in life insurance too. Independently-owned mortgage house Mortgage Choice announced the partnership with Lifebroker, which claims to be ...

Zurich manager wins Aon Benfield Scholarship

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... has won the Aon Benfield Scholarship for 2009 - a joint scholarship from the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Aon Benfield Australia. Caballero, segment development manager at Zurich, will travel to London in September to attend ...

Aon upgrades insurance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Aon Master Trust has improved its insurance for members to include unlimited death cover and higher total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection limits. The trust has increased the TPD benefit to $3 million and income protection has risen ...

Suncorp names CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... Snowball worked at Aviva plc for seven years, holding a number of positions including chief executive director UK general insurance, UK life insurance and Ireland general insurance. Snowball worked as group executive director at Aviva plc, between 2005 ...

HESTA improves insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... and death covers - all without an increase to the premiums charged to members. Currently, members with HESTA's default insurance generally have two units of death cover and two units of income protection cover which can provide a monthly disability income ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... (FSR) in 2004. In addition, many of the advice services in the UK focus around endowment contracts and selling life insurance products while Australia has a more mature "holistic" advice operation, said Ian Knox, managing director at Paragem. However ...

Broker gets permanent ban from ASIC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... pocketing $43,500 of his client's funds. This follows an ASIC investigation into Clough's dealings when he operated an insurance consultancy business which traded as Muir Sturrock Pty Ltd and Muir Sturrock Consulting. ASIC found that Clough engaged in ...