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Gilbert to retire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... reports including one on the implementation of the Superannuation Guarantee, greater disclosure of commissions by life insurance agents and what would later become the SIS Act. Gilbert then joined the Credit Union Services Corporation as general manager ...

UK consumers embrace online comparison tools

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... strategies however require firms to think differently regarding their marketing strategies, she said. For example, life insurance and pension companies need to understand changing consumer attitudes towards long-term savings while also realising they ...

APRA not interested in exec pay levels

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... need to understand that APRA can only influence entities they regulate, being banks, building societies, credit unions, insurance companies and friendly societies, and superannuation fund trustees.

Asteron adds to sales team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... business development manager, managing a panel of South Australian and Northern Territory advisers, with a focus on life insurance and risk protection," said Stuart James, Asteron sales manager for South Australia. In February, Asteron and Aviva were ...

AXA upgrades insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Financial planners looking for better insurance cover for their clients could benefit from the latest round of AXA enhancements on its insurance product. AXA recently unveilled a host of underwriting changes to its insurance offer, with financial protection ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... Australian business economists lunch on Australian government debt in a changed financial world. In company news, QBE Insurance Ltd holds its annual general meeting. In Sydney, Reserve Bank of Australia board member Professor Warwick McKibbin addresses ...

Aviva offers insurance relief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Insurance provider Aviva has upgraded its product to allow clients, who recently lost their jobs, the option to waive premiums for up to a year. The option helps clients who become involuntarily unemployed because of the global financial crisis. Aviva ...

ING partners with MBF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... ING Australia has partnered with MBF to provide super members with a 12 per cent saving in corporate private health insurance rates. Mark Pankhurst, ING Australia head of product and marketing for wealth management, said this discount is usually only ...

MTAA withdraws insurance freebies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The $5.5 billion MTAA Superannuation Fund is axing its long-standing "six month rule" on insurance cover for certain members, citing it is "not equitable" to the rest of the fund's membership base. According to a statement on the MTAA website, the fund ...

AIG Australia weathering US storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... than suffering an expected client exodus, sales figures from the Australian subsidiary - which as part of Asian life insurance giant, AIA, is to be separately managed in an independent insulated trust - show premium revenue across the company grew 65 ...