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Sunsuper hits $5 billion in assets

... Sunsuper Corporate now exceed $350 million. Sunsuper's chief executive, Mr Don Luke, cited low fees, investment choice, insurance flexibility and the ability to provide superannuation services professionally as the main reasons why companies chose Sunsuper. ...

HIH: another two bite the dust

Mr Rodney Aistrope and Mr Antony Boulden have been disqualified from working in the general insurance industry by APRA. Both Mr Aistrope and Mr Boulden will no longer be able to act as director or senior manager of a general insurer, authorized non-operating ...

Breast Cancer and Heart disease top insurance claims

Breast cancer is one of the highest insurance claims for Aviva Australia. According to Aviva the average number of annual claims for breast cancer now makes up 27 per cent of the insurer's claims. For the insurer this means more than $8 million in payments ...

Zurich appoints new head of investment management and life risk

... investment management and life risk for Zurich Australia. Mr Tomkinson's 20 year experience has been in Australia's insurance, superannuation, bancassurance and wealth management sector. He joined Zurich a year ago as strategy, planning and support manager. ...

Goldman Sachs says HIH claims still baseless

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2004
... that said HIH Liquidator Tony McGrath had filed a claim against a series of people and organisations involved with FAI insurance at the time it was sold to HIH. The list of 10 defendants included merchant banker and former Goldman Sachs Australia chairman ...

Suncorp MD collects $3.29m

... director John Mulcahy took home more than $3 million for his first full year at the helm of the Queensland banking and insurance group after presiding over a record annual profit. Mulcahy, lured to the country's sixth-largest bank from the Commonwealth ...

Aust financial system remains in good shape: RBA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2004
... the banking system continued to record strong profitability, partly as a result of very low bad debts expense, and the insurance industry had benefited from better underwriting results and a pick-up in investment returns. "A notable development over ...

Tower to merge New Zealand businesses, seeks new CEO

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2004
... organisation under one chief executive. In a statement to the stock exchange today, the company said Tower New Zealand Insurance & Operations, run by chief executive Paul Hunt, and Tower New Zealand Investment Businesses, run by chief executive Paul ...

QBE Insurance issues $530 mln in convertible securities

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2004
QBE Insurance Group (QBE) announced today the issue to institutional investors of 20-year zero coupon senior convertible securities (SCS), raising $US375 million or approximately $A530 million net funds after expenses. The proceeds will assist repayment ...

Risk measurement lags amongst insurance companies - E&Y survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2004
Risk measurement remains unsophisticated in Australian insurance companies as they struggle to keep abreast of a rash of regulatory, legislative and governance-driven changes, according to a new report. An Ernst & Young survey revealed that while the ...