Colonial has finally offloaded its United Kingdom life insurance and pensions business to Swiss insurance group Winterthur for $891 million....

Newly-sold fund manager MLC has paid $24 million for a 50 per cent stake in Thailand's Ad-vance Assurance....

Mercantile Mutual has rebranded its life insurance broking arm into a dealer group, AustAdvis-ers, in a bid to attract planners seeking a solution to licensing changes sl...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has relaxed its policy on sending life insurance applications electronically....

Macquarie has revamped its range of superannuation and allocated pension plans to include a number of estate planning initiatives and life insurance....

On Friday the 14 April, The Australian featured an article titled: “AXA plans $3bn liquidation” which alleges that AXA is planning to liquidate its $3 billion property po...

Income protection has had its fair share of trouble in the past five years as life insurance groups have scrambled to fix loss-making books of business. One major trend r...

Costs associated with GST and the purchase of Tyndall Australia has punished Royal & Sun Alliance Australia, dramatically reducing its net profit of $47 million in 1998 t...

The proposed takeover of Colonial by the Commonwealth Bank will cost $447 million and lead to cost savings of up to $300 million per year, according to the scheme of arra...

Colonial says talks concerning the sale of its UK life assets are continuing, but declined to com-ment on parties to the discussions....

Commissions paid on life insurance products will inevitably move to level com-missions, according to a visiting financial planning expert....

Not too long ago, bonds for special purposes, like education and funerals, were very popular. But as investors become increasingly more sophisticated in their financial p...

UK - Colonial says talks concerning the sale of its UK life assets are continu-ing, but declined to comment on parties to the discussions....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has relaxed its policy on sending life insurance applications electronically....