Local companies follow parents’ merger
25 September 2001
Australia’s Scudder Investments operations will merge with Deutsche Asset Management’s after their European parents, Zurich and Deutsche Bank, swapped key businesses…
25 September 2001
Australia’s Scudder Investments operations will merge with Deutsche Asset Management’s after their European parents, Zurich and Deutsche Bank, swapped key businesses…
18 September 2001
The FSR Act will bring many challenges to the financial services sector, according to accountants Ernst & Young…
11 September 2001
Companies which fail to undertake environmental audits risk being sidelined by the increasingly important investment sector of “ethical investors”, says mega-broker Marsh…
04 September 2001
Sydney-based financial services company Challenger International has reported a 91% rise in its 2000/01 profit…
28 August 2001
Norwich Union Life Australia has established what has been long suspected: that most Australians don’t know much about superannuation…
21 August 2001
“Doctor shopping” and fraud allegations are the two main areas of concern for the Financial Industry Complaints Services panel, which has released its first annual report…
14 August 2001
Marsh has emerged from a field of insurers and risk specialists to grab Comcover’s risk services account…
07 August 2001
Royal and Sun Alliance has consolidated its financial services division from 20 units to five…
31 July 2001
Zurich has introduced a new education program designed to empower the employees to take control of their finances…
31 July 2001
Credit unions are beating the banks in the battle for business, according to research conducted by Eureka…
24 July 2001
Norwich Union Life has taken hold of a big super industry problem and applied an innovative new approach: education…
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…
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…
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…
03 July 2001
The Senate has finally passed the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Bill, which provides for separating couples to split their super…
26 June 2001
APRA is trying to devise ways to improve the quality and timeliness of information it receives from superannuation funds…
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…
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…
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…
29 May 2001
The Federal Government has increased its allocation to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal…