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Fin services firms support bushfire appeal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... government. The merged group has also increased the number of staff available to cash emergency relief cheques and fast track insurance claims. Their banking customers will also get financial assistance in the form of deferred home loan repayments; suspension ...

Master trusts and industry funds drive risk growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Employer master trusts and industry funds will provide more risk insurance over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries research. The actuary's research found life risk insurance sold within employer master trusts is expected to grow at ...

Telstra Super members gain rebate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Almost 30,000 Telstra Super members will receive a rebate on their group insurance premiums after lower than expected claim levels with the fund's insurer, TOWER Australia over the past three years. Telstra Super's deal with TOWER Australia means the ...

Suncorp chief departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... Management in Australia as an executive director and chief financial officer. He has also held senior roles at NRMA Insurance and Deloitte Management Consulting.

Double Bay brokers banned

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... after the regulator found they were operating without a licence. The regulator found while Dryer and Littlemore acted as insurance brokers under the Interactive Insurance Brokers name, they arranged professional indemnity, public liability and motor ...

John Kavanagh joins Financial Standard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... the gamut of financial services - retail and institutional banking, capital markets, funds management, superannuation, insurance, financial planning and taxation. He was Personal Finance editor at the Australian in the 1990s and had an earlier stint ...

AXA Asia Pac growth mixed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... Pacific enjoyed strong year-to-December fund flows in China, India, Thailand and Malaysia but 'new business' outside insurance slowed in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The company announced last week that due to the weak markets globally, total ...

Mandate to the Future

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... portfolio is predominantly made up of distressed debt assets, Neal said they are looking to include commodity futures and insurance-type investments in the portfolio at some point. The fund is also keeping an eye on hedge funds. "We are thinking hard ...

Polaris buys SEEC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Polaris Software has bought insurance software developer, SEEC in a move that will allow the firm to provide more products and services to the local wealth management industry. According to a Polaris statement, the deal will form one of the world's ...

MLC axes 120 workers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... changes with final role impacts to be determined in early February." MLC is the wealth management arm of NAB and provides insurance, investment management and financial planning services. MLC has roughly 3,900 employees.