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Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... Ltd Australia 341 Maple-Brown Abbott Ltd 358 Perennial Investment Partners 375 Challenger Financial Services Ltd 397 Insurance Australia Group 403 Lend Lease 406 Suncorp Metway Limited 452 Balanced Equity Management Ranked by total global assets under ...

Home equity needs to be part of retirement strategy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... national retirement income strategies. In the paper, Over Fifty Group contends that the use of home equity can offer insurance against outliving super, bridge the retirement savings gap and be used to fund health insurance premiums into advanced age. ...

HESTA boosts insurance for members

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
HESTA Super Fund is rolling out insurance upgrades for members which improve the default cover and better reflect the changing needs and profile of its members. The new insurance benefits, effective 1 November, will offer members two extra units of ...

Statewide boosts investment team

... financial officer after the departure of Mark Coleman. Graham Croft, formerly manager of the investment division of the Insurance Commission of Western Australia, will fill the newly created role which was formed to take up some of the chief financial ...

ASIC bans building insurance broker

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned former insurance broker Dennis Murvan Gentry, of Collingwood, Victoria from providing financial services for five years. ASIC found that Gentry engaged in dishonest and misleading ...

Fincorp launches safety-first income fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... sectors. Chief executive officer, Craig Stubbs, said a key element of the Enhanced Income Fund was the capital loss insurance policy with underwriters at Lloyd's of London. "The Fincorp Enhanced Income Fund is a new opportunity for investors looking ...

Zurich head of planning switches hats

... management and compliance. Geoff Copp was previously Zurich Australia's head of planning and business practices in general insurance. He has spent 19 years at Zurich Australia and 34 years in the financial services industry. "Geoff brings to his role ...

Another HIH exec faces the music

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
A former HIH Insurance company secretary has appeared in court to answer charges concerning his role in the highly publicised collapse of Australia's second-biggest insurer at the time. Frederick Lo was ordered to appear in Sydney's Downing Centre Local ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
For superannuation fund trustees arguing that scale is a panacea, as far as insurance is concerned it has very little impact on pricing premiums, according to a Rainmaker report. Rainmaker's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the 2006 ...

Insure while you wait: Aviva

If you can do your banking online, why not insurance? Aviva Australia gives consumers the option to get their life insurance needs arranged on the spot. Well, not quite like internet banking but close enough. The local subsidiary of the sixth largest ...