Insurance Comparison News
Actuaries Seek Better Investor Protection
Sunday April 27, 1997
The influential Institute of Actuaries of Australia has called on the Federal Government to seize the opportunity provided by the Wallis report to impose uniform capital adequacy requirements on banks and insurance companies in an effort to provide better protection for investors. The IAA proposBells And Whistles Used To Sell Trauma Insurance
Friday April 25, 1997
Trauma insurance has been hailed as insurance for the '90s. But after three years of expanding the conditions covered to entice people to buy the product, some companies are finding they have bitten off more than they can chew. PHILIPPA TYNDALE reports. FIERCE competition is not just characteriWallis Report Is A Damp Squib
Sunday April 13, 1997
The Wallis report on reform of the financial system is a fizzer. It's not the world-changing document Peter Costello and the committee led us to expect and sections of the media have billed it as. In terms of its potential impact on bank customers and the wider economy, it bears no comparison witChanging Winds, Shifting Sands
Thursday April 10, 1997
Robert Joss at Westpac looks pretty clever in the wake of the Treasurer Peter Costello's move to block any mergers between the four large trading banks - particularly by way of comparison with Don Argus from the National Australia Bank who has been left flatfooted. Westpac's pre-emptive strike on