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Funeral insurance goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia is adding funeral cover to its online product range. Zurich unveiled the new online offering that aims to help fund the expenses associated with funerals as part of its ongoing strategy to make life insurance accessible ...

Zurich extends political risk insurance to EMs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia is providing political risk insurance for carbon credit projects in the emerging markets for the first time. This development will protect companies against risk of a range of government actions that might prevent ...

ING buys Pinnacle Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... dealer group Pinnacle Partners. The dealer group will be integrated into the ING Australia owned Millennium3, which bought Zurich Financial Services Australia's advice and insurance group Financial Lifestyle Solutions (FLS) last week. Pinnacle Partners ...

Online insurance lost in cyberspace

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... this month Synchron called on Strategies Plus to develop a new website to help step up their presence in online insurance. Zurich, Tower Australia and ING One Care have all tapped into new insurance technologies to provide more flexible and cheaper insurance ...

ING snaps up Zurich advisory group

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has sold its 141-strong advice and insurance broker advisory group Financial Lifestyle Solutions (FLS) to ING-owned Millennium3 Financial Services. Millennium3 is one of Australia's largest financial services ...

Zurich creates investment and life account role

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
Zurich Financial Services has appointed Nick Langton to the newly created role of national key accounts manager of its Investments and Life Risk divisions. The role was created to provide a greater focus on the relationship between the firm and its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... 7,225.94 points, up 69.39 or 0.97 per cent. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 5,142.1 points, up 64.06 or 1.26 per cent. ZURICH - The Swiss market index closed at 7,778.93 points, up 125.22 or 1.64 per cent. TOKYO - The Nikkei stock average rose 0.35 ...

Life insurance tax should be abolished: IFSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... done estimates for 2008 but you would be safe to say it would be $50-70 million a year on a national basis." Andrew McKee, Zurich Australia head of life risk, said one of the key issues on the stamp duty charged on life insurance is it varies in each ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... year to $33 billion at the end of December 2007, according to investment consulting and research company onValues. The Zurich based firm surveyed 19 investment managers on "specialist sustainable investment products or mandates" and found funds accounted ...

Macquarie grows Life team

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... FutureWise's online platform. Robert McNeil has been appointed to Macquarie Life's Queensland business as a BDM, moving from Zurich Financial Services where he worked for more than four years. McNeil will be responsible for maintaining Macquarie Life's ...