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AFA awards top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... advisers who use the products). AXA Australia won the Life Cover and TPD Award; AIA Australia won the Income Protection Award; TOWER Australia won the Products and Premiums Award; and Challenger won the Annuity Provider of the Year Award. This year ...

London exchange signs deal with FactSet

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... companies, particularly following an increased focus on counterparty exposure in testing market conditions. A recent survey by Tower Group showed that 43 per cent of firms now recognise the importance of entity data, which has the highest impact on credit ...

MLC adds eight debt managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... Asset Management were all added to the portfolios. Franklin Templeton Investments, Shenkman Capital Management and Stone Tower Capital also received investment mandates from the firm. MLC added these eight managers, retained five of its original seven ...

AXA AP angles for bigger slice of Aus market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
AXA Asia Pacific's full-year report today shed some light on why it's being courted by National Australia Bank and AMP, but also how it plans to grow its local revenues in the next few years. This morning the group announced that its profit after tax ...

Tower exec joins Macquarie Life

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
Macquarie Life has appointed former Tower manager Dave Evans as national key account manager. Evans will be responsible for maintaining and developing alliances and dealer relationships across Australia. Evans has more than 19 years experience in the ...

Life insurance consolidation could hurt consumers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... price of higher margin products and limited product innovation if the life insurance market continues to consolidate, warns Tower Australia. Jim Minto, managing director of Tower Australia, urged the government and Australian Competition and Consumer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... half results, as will BHP Billiton Ltd, Boral Ltd, Stockland, Australian Agricultural Company Ltd and Computershare Ltd. Tower Australia Group Ltd holds its annual general meeting in Sydney. The Australian share market closed at a three-month low on ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Yes, we all live in a global community thanks to the web, but according to new research, where you live physically makes a big difference to your retirement savings. New research from consulting giant Towers Watson found that working in Paris, Tokyo ...

Tower hires former AIA exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
TOWER Australia has appointed former AIA executive Niall McConville as national dealership manager. He will join TOWER Australia in May and initially work out of the Melbourne offices with plans to relocate to Sydney at a later date. McConville joins ...

Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... expertise as superannuation consultants and this merger allows us to really own that post-retirement space." Boal also said that Tower Perrins' leading employee engagement business, ISR, runs a very successful customer survey business. "The business ...