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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... posted heavy losses, with Munich Re losing 4.28 percent to 111.75 euros, while Frankfurt's DAX index dropped 1.16 percent. Swiss Re fell 3.54 percent to 51.70 Swiss francs, meanwhile. Hannover Re, which says it is the world's third biggest re-insurance ...

AMP appoints key insurance personnel

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... Bertasso joins Personal Wealth Protection from CommInsure. Before this, Bertasso resided in South Africa and worked for Swiss Re in number of key roles, including chief underwriter. AMP's director of wealth protection products Michael Paff said 'head ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... Netherlands - ING. Japan: Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, Nomura, Sumitomo Mitsui Insurance groups: Aegon, Allianz, Aviva, Axa, Swiss Re, Zurich According to the Financial Times, the FSB will ask these institutions "to start drawing up so-called living wills ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
2009 will be the Year of Africa if Pope Benedict the XVI has his way. Chances are, given the way the global community is now suffering from its greed-infected wounds, he may not have long to wait. Despite all the technological advances, medical discoveries ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... months. The project partners include SWIFT, the global insurance standards organisation ACORD and the reinsurance companies Swiss Re, Munich Re and Scor. Rounding up the team, reinsurance brokers Aon, Benfield and Willis have also signed as project partners. ...

Schroders buys Swiss Re

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Global asset management firm Schroders has confirmed it is acquiring Swiss third party fund manager Swiss Re Asset Management Funds (Switzerland) AG. The sale will see Schroders scoop up Swiss Re's nearly $1.97 billion of asset under management as at ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...

Industry pleads for greater professionalism

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... commissions and conflicts were largely the headline act. Panellists included Heather Nicholls, chief executive officer of Swiss Re, Michael Bargholz, chief executive of Alliance Bernstein, and John Pearce, chief executive of Colonial First State Investments. ...

Australian Unity joint venture spawns fixed interest manager

... Schneider's most recent position was with NAB as head of balance sheet management oversight and before then he had stints with Swiss Re Australia and New Zealand. Swan was senior portfolio manager with Perennial Investments before joining Vianova and ...

AMP shares placed in trading halt in NZ

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2003
... announcement, the NZX said in a statement. AMP shares closed yesterday at NZ$7.70. On Wednesday speculation arose that insurer Swiss Re had emerged as a frontrunner to purchase AMP's $A600 million ($NZ700 million) Cobalt/Gordian global reinsurance book. ...