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Zurich recruits Macq Private Wealth head

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
Zurich Investments has appointed three new members to its investment team, including the former head of money market at Macquarie Private Wealth. As an investment specialist, Angus Crennan will report to Patrick Noble, senior investments specialist ...

Commission ban to widen underinsurance gap: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... For example, one respondent said, "I couldn't afford to come up with that kind of money needed to pay for the insurance." Zurich commissioned the survey in December last year and was conducted by market researcher, Loyalty Zone. Participating in the ...

Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
It's an asset class that is worth more 'in the rough' and local investors can get their hands on it through a Zurich-based firm with links to famous jeweler Harry Winston, which visited Melbourne last month to scope the local market. Diamond Asset Advisors ...

Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
For three years, Zurich's Group Risk business in Australia has stayed relatively below the radar. That will now change after the insurer scored a hiring coup - successfully recruiting the key team of rival IUS Life, including general manager, Phil Collins. ...

Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... solely on their iPad. Tower unveiled its Accelerated iQuote life insurance app for both the iPhone and iPad in November, and Zurich also has an iPhone app for life insurance quotes. In October, dealer group Synchron conducted its training course for ...

Aus Ethical head of distribution departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... with time as a director of a superannuation consulting and accounting practice, and many years in corporate super with Zurich Australia, among others. He has also worked previously at Absolute Capital and SRI firm, Glebe Asset Management. Australian ...

Insurer members adopt FSC flood model

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... same procedures with the Victorian bushfires last year. Other FSC members that are handling claims include Suncorp Life, Zurich Australia and General Reinsurance Life Australia. The FSC said it would act as the centralised contact point for flood-affected ...

Zurich eyes platforms for growth

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Macquarie, BT and AXA are some of the platform providers Zurich Financial Services will be targeting next year as the firm shifts its strategy from launching new products, to increasing its presence in the platform sector. Matthew Drennan, general manager ...

Tower unveils iQuote app

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... iTunes. Tower is among the first Australian insurers to roll out Apple-based applications for insurance quotes. Last month Zurich launched an iPhone app which allows advisers to perform quotes across Zurich's core retail risk product range and streamline ...

Zurich launches iPhone app for life insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Zurich is launching a new iPhone application that allows advisers to provide life insurance quotes to clients - catering to the soaring number of planners who use iPhones and want faster, simpler technology to help clients buy insurance. Zurich is providing ...