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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 ...

Former MetLife MD to head up TOWER investments

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
... vacated by Grahame Evans who shifted to Professional Investment Services (PIS) in August. TOWER group managing director, Jim Minto, said Pearce's role will cover responsibility for TOWER's investment business and added that the appointment rounded out ...

Legacy product solution on its way

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
... "we have considered how to do that without causing detriment to people," he added. Group managing director of Tower, Jim Minto, said the industry were prepared to do the clean up work, for legacy products that were "over engineered" at a time when disclosure ...

Head of TOWER moves on after 13 months

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
... who has led TOWER for just over a year, became public last night. In a memo to staff, group chief executive officer Jim Minto said that Evans's departure would not affect the TOWER investment strategy and was unrelated to the appointment of Russell as ...

David Jones adds more financial services to shopping list

... loans, car insurance and travel insurance. As previously reported in Financial Standard, Tower Group's chief executive Jim Minto opined that the financial services sector need to find new ways to reach consumers as the way people buy wealth management ...

PrefSure deal sees Tower focus on master trusts

... $145 million as they push their strategic growth towards life insurance for master trusts. TOWER managing director, Jim Minto, said that the key aspect of the deal is that PrefSure's products, which are mainly distributed through independent financial ...

TOWER deny reports they intend selling insurance through supermarkets

... said comments they were considering such a strategy is a misinterpretation of statements by TOWER group chief executive Jim Minto, who said at their recent profit results media briefing that all insurers need to be more innovative in creating new distribution ...

Turn on more channels: TOWER

TOWER Group chief executive officer, Jim Minto, says we need to develop new ways to reach customers because the way they are buying wealth management products is changing fast. "What we are seeing is change in how people buy traditional products," says ...