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IFSA/Deloitte launch Future Leaders Award

... 'aspiring young leaders'. Participants need to submit a 2,500 to 4,000-word paper on one of three topics such as life insurance, the inefficiencies in the financial system and retirement income streams. The award is open to current employees of IFSA ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

... many of them the result of the takeover of Colonial in 2000 (and which itself cobbled together a group of incompatible insurance company systems in the late 1990s). One technology project under way at CBA at the moment, for example, is seeking to reduce ...

NAB hands Asian life insurance to AXA

In a deal worth more than half a billion dollars, National Australia Bank (NAB) will divest its MLC life insurance businesses in Hong Kong and Indonesia to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). The $575 million sell-off is part of NAB's ongoing business ...

Life risk advisers endorse Zurich

... for Life. As previously reported in Financial Standard, in mid-2006 the group plans to unveil a web-based life risk insurance platform called the 'Life Risk Factory'. Zurich's head of life risk, Andrew McKee, said that the new platform will allow existing ...

Macq to roll-out InfoComp life insurance software solution

... platform Composer, will be used to help support MAS' risk platform, put in place as part of the risk minimisation and life insurance simplification program. MAS's decision to use InfoComp for their software solution is the third time MAS has turned to ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2006
... Bunnings Warehouse Property Trust all releasing first half results. NEW YORK - US stocks rose as positive earnings lifted insurance broker Aon's shares, while the technology sector rebounded. The three major indexes, which had been lower for much of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2006
... Reserve would extend its campaign of interest-rate hikes. Shares of rate-sensitive stocks such as utilities, banks and insurance companies declined on the first productivity decline in nearly five years. Disappointing earnings added to the gloomy picture ...

Bravura momentum rolls on with Essential

... the superannuation and financial services industry," he said. Bravura also bought New Zealand unit registry and life insurance group, Tacit, in July last year and fund accounting software company, Syscorp, in January 2004. The Essential deal is expected ...

McPlanning: CBA unveil first one stop shop

... plans and also offers customers a Commsec specialist, to open trading accounts, and an adviser to offer general and life insurance planning. CBA's general manager of network financial planning, Tim Gunning, said the shops are all part of the bank's plan ...

S&P react to TOWER PrefSure deal

... announcement that TOWER group (TOWER) has bought PrefSure Life Ltd (PrefSure) to shore up and grow their master trust and life insurance business. S&P have left TOWER's ratings unchanged for now at 'BBB' following the deal with a boost to a 'BBB+' rating ...