Royal & Sun sheds small fry for FSRB
07 August 2001
Royal and Sun Alliance has consolidated its financial services division from 20 units to five…
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Zurich gets into the education game
31 July 2001
Zurich has introduced a new education program designed to empower the employees to take control of their finances…
Customer satisfaction – the gap keeps growing
31 July 2001
Credit unions are beating the banks in the battle for business, according to research conducted by Eureka…
Norwich launches Super education campaign
24 July 2001
Norwich Union Life has taken hold of a big super industry problem and applied an innovative new approach: education…
Slow insurers face a bleak future
17 July 2001
Insurance companies which maintain traditional business models with inefficient operational cost structures face a bleak future, according to Peter Wyatt, MD of loss adjusters…
AMP expands uk market exposure
10 July 2001
Fresh from selling off its general insurance operations in Australia, AMP is continuing its strategic expansion into the British wealth creation market…
AXA opens up global markets to locals
10 July 2001
A new range of managed funds launched into the retail market yesterday by Axa Australia will use leading finds manager Alliance Capital…
Super-split law passes Senate
03 July 2001
The Senate has finally passed the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Bill, which provides for separating couples to split their super…
APRA keeps close to super review
26 June 2001
APRA is trying to devise ways to improve the quality and timeliness of information it receives from superannuation funds…
AXA profit roundup
13 June 2001
Axa Asia-Pacific made an after-tax operating profit of $162 million for the six months to March 31, thanks mainly to the buoyant health insurance market…
Tax loophole plugged
13 June 2001
The Federal Government has closed a loophole in the Income Tax Assessment Act that applied to dividend imputations and life insurance companies…
Who knows where their super is?
29 May 2001
Considering that the newly announced Budget will reward “self-funded retirees”, many Australians have little or no idea about what their superannuation actually does…
Super tribunal gets a budget boost
29 May 2001
The Federal Government has increased its allocation to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal…
AXISS gets more, too
29 May 2001
The Federal Treasury department set up to promote Australia as a centre for global financial services has also had its budget boosted…
Watch this space
15 May 2001
The strategic moves by giant foreign-owned insurers on the local market continues, with attention now switching to financial services…
Genetic testing: Approach with caution
15 May 2001
Genetic testing in the workplace is set to become a controversial issue in Australia, says Minter Ellison partner Dan Williams…
HIH – Government moves
15 May 2001
The HIH collapse is approaching the proportions of a national disaster and has consequently become a political football…
HIH’S party line exposed by media
15 May 2001
The Sydney media was agog yesterday at the scale of entertaining enjoyed by HIH…
Brokers defend their involvement
15 May 2001
As the buck-passing continues – with governments blaming each other, everyone except the Government and APRA blaming APRA, APRA blaming the HIH management and board…
AMP rationalises super
01 May 2001
AMP has struck a deal with global consultancy firm William M Mercer to handle its 95 stand-alone corporate superannuation clients…