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XPLAN tops planners' list

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... software. The Investment Trends 2008 Planner Risk and Risk Technology Report also highlights the importance that life insurance services played in 2008 as planners actively sought alternate sources of income. XPLAN was also rated as having the best risk ...

AIG subsidiaries to separate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... common equity," said a statement issued by the US Treasury. While the separation seems a drastic measure, it allows the insurance operations in Asia and Australia to keep functioning profitably, which is ironically some of best news local AIG policyholders ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market was at a five year low at noon, dragged down by QBE Insurance and Rio Tinto as uncertainty about the US government's response to its weak economy weighed on prices. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... jobs and 350 call centre staff, respectively. Reported losses at big corporations such as Lend Lease, Westfield and Insurance Australia Group only mean one thing - more job losses - as they try to preserve their bottom line. But the events of the past ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... better protected from the next investment bubble if the government legislate subsidised financial advice and support an insurance scheme that will hedge home-owners against extreme property prices, said Dr. Robert Shiller, the author of the best-selling ...

Parlie inquiry into sales commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... distribution; the licensing arrangements for those who sold the financial products and services; and the consumer protection and insurance arrangements in place," said a statement released by the Committee running the Inquiry. For such a significant ...

AUSCOAL overhauls insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
The $4.9 billion super fund for the mining industry AUSCOAL Super has restructured its insurance to offer members scaleable, age-based cover. According to Bruce Watson, chief executive of AUSCOAL, the new default arrangement means the fund has moved ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... Ltd, Crown Ltd, Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd, PaperLinx, Downer EDI, Nylex Ltd and Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd. QBE Insurance Ltd, OZ Minerals, Timbercorp Ltd, Funtastic Ltd and GPT Group release annual results. On Thursday, the Australian share market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... due. The ABS also releases average weekly earnings for the November quarter. First half results are due from Telstra, Insurance Australia Group, Tatts Group, Ramsay Health Care, Toll Holdings, Origin Energy, Village Roadshow, Arrow Energy, Lend Lease ...

Advisers award top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Asteron and Aviva were the joint awardees of this year's 2008 Life Insurance Company of the Year Award by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life. Challenger, which last year acquired the annuities portfolio of AXA, was named the ...