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Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Leading superannuation expert and academic John Evans believes there are more ways to develop the annuities market than are currently being explored. The uncertainty attached to longevity, or people outliving their savings, and its impact on the wider ...

Lombardo walks into OnePath

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
Claude Lombardo has taken over as the new Group Underwriting Manager at fund manager and life insurers OnePath. Lombardo, an underwriting specialist with over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, replaces Huw Parry who left the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... Australian insurers opened the day mixed. QBE was up seven cents at $17.30, but IAG was down eight cents at $3.65. Life insurer Tower Australia Group said a shifting economic and regulatory environment would make the year ahead "interesting". Tower was ...

AIG sells Nan Shan stake

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... maintain both its majority ownership in Nan Shan and the Nan Shan brand. Established in 1963, Nan Shan is the largest life insurer in Taiwan by total book value and the third largest by total premiums, serving four million policyholders through a network ...

APRA cautions against cloud computing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has expressed its concern of the use of cloud computing in the financial services industry. In a letter written to the industry, APRA clearly advises all deposit-taking institutions (ADIs), general ...

TOWER Aus hits $1bn insurance milestone

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... $465 million in group risk premium for a total of $1 billion. TOWER Australia is the largest non-bank specialist life insurer in the local market and fourth largest overall, according to Plan for Life figures at the end of March. Jim Minto, managing ...

CommInsure completes business restructure, appoints two GMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... insurance research from Investment Trends show that CommInsure came second in the firm's inaugural Investment Trends Life Insurer Benchmarking Report. The researcher credited CommInsure's WriteAway product as one of the 2009 launches that paved the way ...

Aviva, AMP and CommInsure top insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... setters in the life insurance sector, after taking the top three sports in the firm's inaugural Investment Trends Life Insurer Benchmarking Report. Aviva's top spot was driven by "superior transaction capabilities", according to the report. However ...

New insurance benchmarks on the cards

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
The insurance industry could soon face a price shake-up as the Institute of Actuaries of Australia gears up to launch a new set of life tables aimed at providing price benchmarks to insurers. The institute has been collating information from major life ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...