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Women priced out of life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
More than two in five women with dependents have no life insurance because many perceive purchasing life insurance to be a costly, time-consuming exercise, according to an Allianz report. Meredith Barnes, national development manager, said women either ...

Singapore mega-fund IC tender due

... providers such as fund management companies and insurers as well as their products including unit trusts, investment-linked insurance products, exchange traded funds that should be included under the CPFIS. The criteria for the selection will be on the ...

PI increase sparks debate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... independent body representing consumers has thrown its support behind ASIC's proposed changes to professional indemnity (PI) insurance required by financial planners and other AFS licensees. Only this week, the Financial Industry Complaints Service ...

ANZ bank looks to India

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... our ATMs compare with Spain's Santander's?" Smith said. "You can practically cook dinner with a French ATM, they sell insurance, approve mortgages, it's quite amazing." He said India had developed world class businesses in knowledge based industries ...

MLC calculates super insurance

Consumers may be ill-informed about their insurance but a new service from MLC could give them more insight on the after-tax costs of getting insurance cover. MLC has launched Super Insurance Modeller, which enables advisers to contrast the after-tax ...

FICS raises maximum claim to $150k

... year, FICS has imposed a new monetary limit for investment complaints, from $100,000 to $150,000 and the limit for life insurance complaints will increase from $250,000 to $280,000. "There will also be implementation clauses which give licensees, who ...

Comminsure motors along

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The bancassurance model is alive and well. The Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance business, Comminsure, has moved to do its own underwriting on its car insurance product because it believes it can get greater value out of its retail network ...

IOOF improves insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... arranging up to $200,000 of death, total and permanent disablement cover for non-insured members and increasing the insurance cover of existing members by up to 30 per cent. Starting next year, members are guaranteed the insurance cover regardless of ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... in liquid-plus funds," said Agarwal. Behind this too is an army of 60,000 distributor-advisers and two million life insurance agents though limited regulation meaning almost anyone can call themselves an adviser has forced the regulator, the Securities ...

India's investment exuberance

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... financial products. "I've never seen so many. They are advertising mutual funds, portfolio planning, term deposits, insurance, even housing estates and retail infrastructure funds," he said. In short, it appears India and Australia have more in common ...