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TOWER, CommInsure tie as top insurers

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
TOWER Australia and CommInsure both named Life Company of the Year in the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan for Life awards held yesterday. In a surprise, the two life insurers ranked equal in the main category, with the awards committee ...

CommInsure and Zurich win insurance awards

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF). "This is the third time that CommInsure has been named the ANZIIF Life Company of the Year which is a testament to the passion and commitment within the business and the consistent, high standard that ...

Challenger wins $200m from AustralianSuper

AUSTRALIANSUPER RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... means it is in a position to access deals that would not be available to most superannuation funds. "Challenger's life company balance sheet, of which approximately two-thirds is invested in debt securities, has enabled it to be one of the few active ...

Challenger wins $650m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... mandate to be invested in its Guaranteed Index Return product, bringing the total guaranteed product sales for the life company to an estimated $2.15 billion this financial year. Stuart Barton, head of marketing and communications at Challenger, confirmed ...

Aviva Investors mines Asia for mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... said the firm is working on making sure the market doesn't confuse the asset management arm with the sale of the life company to NAB/MLC. He said Aviva Investors is continuing to develop investment strategies for local retail and institutional investors ...

AXA upgrades insurance in super

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... insurance remains affordable," he said. AXA was awarded the best Life and TPD insurance at the 2009 Plan for Life/AFA Life Company of the Year Awards.

AFA awards top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... Advisers (AFA), in association with Plan for Life, has announced the winners of this year's AFA/Plan for Life 2009 Life Company of the Year Awards. It was certainly the year for CommInsure, which took not just the Platinum Life Company Award but also ...

Challenger income and index fund boost profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... Services saw net profit after tax (NPAT) rise in the first half of the financial year thanks to strong returns from its life company division and the expansion of its product offering. The firm's normalised NPAT rose nine per cent to $116 million during ...

Challenger returns to core

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... strengthened by last week's sale of our mortgage operations and the retention of 80 per cent of its earnings in the life company. The group's share price rose more than 2 per cent in morning trade to around $2.80.

AIG Australia weathering US storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... our strategy to disclose detailed and confidential information to comfort our clients. "If anything, the Australian life company is in a stronger financial position than ever before. However the uncertainty of global events warrants ongoing explanations ...