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FSP reviews insurer line up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Dealer group Financial Services Partners is reviewing its preferred risk carriers - including CommInsure, ING and Tower - through its annual adviser survey. A press statement from the firm noted that FSP's survey looks at the services provided by AIG ...

Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
The life insurer who won the year's largest insurance mandate from a super fund, Tower Australia, has tapped the UK market's latest trends to boost its flagship Accelerate platform. Tower is unveilling its new Accelerated Protection platform - an improved ...

AIA tops life risk inflows chart

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... enjoyed a 21.6 per cent boost over the same period, with AIA reporting an enormous 193.1 per cent increase, followed by Tower (27.6 per cent), ING (24.4 per cent) and BT/Westpac (18.7 per cent). Meanwhile premium inflows into the group risk market grew ...

SuperChoice signs TOWER super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
TOWER Australia joins a growing list of corporate super fund providers that have switched from doing choice-of-fund admin internally to outsourcing the role to clearinghouse specialist, SuperChoice. Under the deal, SuperChoice will handle contributions ...

APRA stresses super client burden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... Trowbridge's point is the largest super fund in the country, AustralianSuper deciding to switch group insurers from CommInsure to TOWER. The insurance mandate was worth $600 million. "[We are] likely to see a restructuring of this market, perhaps along ...

Tower to upgrade Accelerate platform

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Fresh from winning a $600 million insurance mandate from AustralianSuper, Tower is now improving its retail insurance offering with the October launch of its new Accelerated Protection platform. Tower is expected to unveil a revamped insurance product ...

Ripoll to headline AFA conference

... chair. Panelists also include David Whiteley, executive manager of Industry Super Network; Jim Minto, managing director of Tower Australia; and Robbie Bennetts, chief executive of Professional Investment Services. More than 450 advisers are expected ...

Centric Wealth chief quits

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... the firm looks for Pillemer's replacement. According to data from Rainmaker Information, Pillemer had previously worked at Tower Group and from 1998 to 2001, managed Investec's Private Client Advisory business in Australia. He was also director of Investec ...

TOWER nabs $600m AustralianSuper deal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
TOWER has secured a $600 million insurance deal with AustralianSuper, the country's largest super fund - and the insurer's winning tender could spur the biggest shake-up in the sector this year. The deal, the largest in Australia this year with an annual ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... strongly amid optimism about the global economic outlook even as companies continued to call on investors for new capital. Tower shares fell after announcing plans to raise $81 million in a rights issue. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed up 32.724 points ...