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Statewide rolls out automatic insurance cover

... Statewide has come up with a simple but clever answer to the nation's underinsurance problems - give members a better insurance deal without the cumbersome paperwork and medical checks. The fund's chief executive Frances Magill said that the new and ...

Zurich advisers log on to IRESS software

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
Zurich Financial Services has become the first Australian life office to launch IRESS' AppCentral electronic life insurance application software across its adviser network. The life-insurance program allows advisers to complete proposals and submit ...

Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... Yellow Brick Road (YBR). The company will focus on after-tax returns, offering advice, accounting, wealth management and insurance and estate planning, as well as stockbroking and direct packaged investments. Bouris said the business was a continuation ...

Stable funds bad defaults: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... Institute (ICI) has called for retirement funds to be invested to achieve growth, and dismissed calls from the US life insurance industry that capital stable funds be allowed as default investment choices in 401(k)s. "Stable value funds emphasise principal ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... with outlooks for higher steel prices driving Angang Steel up and positive profit guidance triggering a rally in the insurance sector, which moved to an all-time high. The Hang Seng Index gained 107.32 points to a finish of a record close of 23,472.88. ...

FPA lends farmers a helping hand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... everyone in our rural communities will benefit," McGauran said. "Often farmers also need help with investments, life insurance and risk management, or succession planning for the property, and this is where appropriate advice is critical, including financial ...

AXA re-writes individual insurance

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
AXA today launched a significant upgrade to its individual insurance products, offering a new Trauma Reinstatement option, reduced TPD waiting periods and increased TPD payouts. The trauma reinstatement option gives policy holders the chance to reinstate ...

AMP takes underwriting online

... their financial planner's office and rides on the back of the success of AMP's easywrite tele, where customers apply for insurance via the phone. Around 60 per cent of all personal statements submitted through the phone option are being completed in ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... a temporary reprieve, there are a range of other factors such as escalating prices for fuel, rents, food and health insurance premiums, which are likely to push inflation higher from late 2007.

Allianz automates underwriting with RTP

Allianz Australia Life Insurance has signed a deal with RGA Technology Partners (RTP) to roll-out RTP's automated underwriting solution AURA. "Our decision to proceed with the AURA solution was based on their underwriting expertise in the insurance ...