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Hands off our turf: Westpac

Product complexity blamed for systemic errors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
... product packages, the report said the most common situation was where banks offered a credit card, transaction account or insurance cover with a loan. The BFSO found that "the complexity of the permutations and combinations creates data input challenges". ...

AXA boosts group cover

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
AXA has boosted its group insurance offering, raising the maximum levels of insurance for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) as well as increasing the expiry ages for both categories. Under the new terms, but still subject to underwriting ...

MapInfo plots the market's future

... Sydney to 100 in just over 12 months as it gears up to provide sophisticated mapping software for five sectors including insurance and banking. While 'location software' was a little known sub-segment in IT many years ago, it received a major boost after ...

Asteron ramps up insurance and income protection

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Asteron has ramped up its life insurance and income protection offerings to try to remedy a significant shortfall in income protection for small business owners and self-employed workers. The move is in response to research conducted by Rice Walker ...

Former MetLife MD to head up TOWER investments

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... Pearce, as its new chief executive officer of investments in Australia. Pearce, formerly both managing director of MetLife Insurance Australia and the former Citicorp Life Insurance business, will take on the role recently vacated by Grahame Evans who ...

ING appoints ex-MLC chief underwriter

... risk management experience and has previously worked in similar chief underwriter roles for Australian Eagle and Royal Insurance prior to MLC. "John has demonstrated a strong adviser and customer focus throughout his career and he will play a key role ...

Zurich appoints ex-CommInsure risk expert

... head of life risk, Andrew McKee, said Rule's position fulfills an important role in the group's plan to grow its life insurance business. "Zurich Australia is committed to making the underwriting process as easy as possible for advisers," he said, and ...

Zurich corporate super businesses for sale

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... about administration of corporate super and we are more involved in super in general, investments and life and general insurance." The spokesman emphasised that the sale would not include Zurich's wrap account product, which he said has been "very successful ...

InvestAhead to merge into Centric Wealth

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Sydney based financial planning, risk insurance and corporate benefit services provider InvestAhead will merge with larger financial planning firm Centric Wealth. The merger will see InvestAhead's three directors, Chandra Wirasinha, Mike Galgut and ...