01 December 2008
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Australia will be among the first private insurance providers to benefit from a competitive New Zealand personal injury market after taking an equity share…
01 December 2008
Vero NZ has won the gold medal for the best business practice at the NZ Business Excellence Awards...
24 November 2008
Cluster group Austbrokers has reported an encouraging start to the new financial year, and expects stable rates to prevail for the remaining three quarters of 2008/09...
24 November 2008
Axa Asia Pacific is banking on a good performance from its insurance lines as plunging markets take their toll on wealth management income...
24 November 2008
New Zealand insurance and investments provider Tower Limited has banked $NZ40.5 million ($34.3 million) for the year as growth among insurance portfolios helped push revenue…
24 November 2008
Tower Australia is revamping a number of its life insurance products to make them more simple for financial advisers and their clients...
24 November 2008
Austbrokers ALIB has merged with BHI Insurance Brokers, with the combined operation renamed Austbrokers RIS...
24 November 2008
Local members of a major global broking organisation are quietly marking the International Insurance Brokers Association changing its name to Uniba Partners...
24 November 2008
IAG today confirmed it has sealed its $170 million joint venture with the State Bank of India and may extend its stake to 49% of the business...
17 November 2008
IAG CEO Mike Wilkins says the insurer will use “selective acquisitions” to help propel growth after the company completes the restructure of its Australian operations...
17 November 2008
IAG Chairman James Strong has defended his board’s decision to reject QBE’s acquisition proposal earlier this year...
17 November 2008
Wesfarmers Insurance is still going for growth, with Group CEO Richard Goyder describing the economic environment as “likely to benefit well-capitalised businesses such as ours”...
17 November 2008
International insurance software and online exchange provider Ebix has reported a record third-quarter net profit of $US7.4 million ($11.2 million), 88% higher than last year’s result...
17 November 2008
NZ’s AMI Insurance has bucked the financial trend by posting good results for last financial year – although it doesn’t expect to do so well this year...
10 November 2008
An email leaked to insuranceNEWS.com.au shows financial services giant AMP is freezing staff pay and will slash jobs in order to reduce costs...
10 November 2008
Wealth manager AMP has raised more money than it expected through a fully underwritten institutional placement of shares to strengthen its balance sheet...
10 November 2008
Unions are demanding Suncorp come clean on the number of jobs it intends to cut across the company...
10 November 2008
IAG appears to have timed its run into India’s insurance market nicely following recent agreement by Indian cabinet ministers to lift maximum foreign direct investment limits…
03 November 2008
After several years of confusion at the top of its direct insurance division, IAG has appointed an experienced manager from the UK direct insurance market to make it perform...
03 November 2008
SRS Insurance has hired three former key managers from Calliden’s Mansions of Australia underwriting agency to manage a new prestige home product...