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TOWER profit down, life business up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... profit rose 13 per cent to $38.2 million for the six months to March this year. It's this underlying profit result that Jim Minto, chief executive at TOWER Australia, said reinforced the ongoing success of the company's life insurance market strategy. ...

Premium and business growth up: TOWER

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... TOWER Australia chair. Thomas said the insurer looked forward to working with its major shareholder, Dai-ichi Life. Jim Minto, TOWER Australia managing director, said the insurer's electronic underwriting product Accelerate was an example of the firm's ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... term service agreements. TOWER Australia always considered owning the whole business as a strategic imperative, said Jim Minto, TOWER Australia managing director. Minto said the purchase would fulfil an important strategic objective to develop an end-to-end ...

Changing of the guard: TOWER

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... company will also support the development of TOWER Australia's business, according to a TOWER ASX statement. Meanwhile Jim Minto, managing director of TOWER Australia, said that Dai-ichi has made it "very clear" that the Japanese insurance firm would ...

TOWER net profits up 81pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... months to March. TOWER Australia's share price increased by 3.8 per cent today on the previous day's close of $2.96. Jim Minto, TOWER Australia managing director, said the life insurance market remained positive despite tough economic conditions. "The ...

Insurance should be like super: Tower

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... insurance advice to combat underinsurance issues and ensure more Australians have access to insurance advice they need, said Jim Minto, managing director of Tower. "The industry and Government need to look at a more accessible alternative to the full ...

Advice shortage shows system is failing: TOWER

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
... adviser before the Simpler Super deadline highlights how the system is failing, said TOWER Australia chief executive Jim Minto. This pent up pressure shows how compliance overload has resulted in consumers being denied access to advice, and yet these ...

Westscheme stays with TOWER for life

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... insurance provider for its 178,000 member base. TOWER Australia has been Westscheme's insurance provider for nine years, and Jim Minto, TOWER Australia managing director, said the partnership had been beneficial for fund members. "Through its long-standing ...

TOWER adds two to its board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... Australia Group now consists of Dr Keith Barton, chairman, Peter Lewinsky, Ralph Pliner, Gary Weiss, Mike Jefferies and Jim Minto, managing director.

Advice in 2020

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
... question to a panel of high powered industry thought leaders at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) conference. Jim Minto, chief executive of TOWER, said, "The middle market problem would have been solved because we eventually found a way to ...