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Companies offering a variety of personal, business, and industrial insurance policies.
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AMP Limited
AMP Limited is an Australian financial corporation. It
operates primarily in Australia and New Zealand. AMP formed in 1849 as the
Australian Mutual Provident Society, a non-profit friendly society. In 1998 it
was demutualised and listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges.
The company provides banking, life insurance, managed funds, superannuation,
property, listed assets and infrastructure.
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AXA
AXA (Euronext: CS, NYSE: AXA) is a French global insurance
companies group headquartered in Paris. AXA is not the name of a single company
but a group of companies independently organized and operated according to the
regulations of many different countries.
The AXA group of companies are engaged in life, health and other forms of
insurance, as well as investment management. The AXA group operates primarily in
Western Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East.
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GMHBA Health Insurance
The origins of GMHBA Health Insurance date back to 1927,
when the Australian Cement Company instituted the Cement Workers Hospital
Benefits Scheme; a health insurance scheme for employees and their families.
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HCF Health Insurance
HCF (Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia) was formed
in 1932 to provide health insurance cover to Australians. Since then, it has
grown to become one of the country’s largest combined registered private health
fund and life insurance organisations.
HCF provides private health insurance cover for a full range of health benefits
including private hospital, Australia-wide ambulance cover and ancillary
services. HCF is financially secure and is one of the few major health funds to
allow contributors to vote for Directors to the Board.
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HIH Insurance
HIH Insurance was Australia's second largest insurance
company, which was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. The
demise of HIH is considered to be the largest corporate collapse in Australia's
history, with liquidators estimating that HIH's losses totalled up to $5.3
billion. Investigations into the cause of the collapse have led to conviction
and imprisonment of a handful of members of HIH management on various charges
relating to fraud.
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Insurance Australia Group Limited
Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) is an Australian
publicly-listed company with its shares traded on the Australian Stock Exchange
as ASX: IAG.
The company was formed by the demutualisation of the NRMA Insurance business in
July 2000 and a return of shares to the members of NRMA. According to its
website, NRMA Insurance Group Limited changed its name to Insurance Australia
Group Limited on 15 January 2002. IAG is the name of the listed entity; it is
not a customer-facing retail name, however it represents the holding company
that holds the many retail brands together.
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Promina Group
Promina Group is an Australian insurance company formerly
listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges as ASX: PMN, NZX: PMN.
It is now fully owned by Suncorp-Metway ASX: SUN. It employs over 7,200 people
in 210 offices across Australia and New Zealand, and traces its operations back
to 1833 in Australia and 1878 in New Zealand.
Promina owns and operates the following brands: AAMI, Australian Pensioners
Insurance Agency (APIA), Just Car Insurance, Shannons, Vero, Asteron and
Tyndall.
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QBE Insurance
QBE Insurance Group Limited (ASX: QBE) is an Australian
based general insurance provider, providing insurance services mainly to the
Asia Pacific region, but also America and Europe (QBE European Operations). It
has offices in 45 countries.
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Royal Automobile Association
The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia, also
known simply as the RAA, is a South Australian automobile club providing a range
of member services including: 24-hour emergency breakdown, towing, repair,
vehicle inspection, mechanical assessment, legal services, travel services, tour
planning, accommodation booking and also a subsidiary insurance company. RAA
services operate on a break-even basis and the organisation looks to generate a
profit through its commercial and investment activities.
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Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) is a motoring
club and mutual organisation, providing services such as roadside assistance,
vehicle, home and contents insurance, personal and car loans, driving
instruction, tourism services, home security products, as well as a lifestyle
club known as RACV Club and RACV Resorts located in the regional Victorian towns
of Cape Schanck, Inverloch and Cobram as well as on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
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SGIC insurance
SGIC is an insurance brand of Insurance Australia Group
trading in South Australia. It was formerly the State Government Insurance
Commission, providing compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance.
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SGIO insurance
SGIO is an insurance brand of Insurance Australia Group
trading in Western Australia. Until 1986, it was also the name of the Queensland
financial institution now known as Suncorp.
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Suncorp-Metway Limited
Suncorp-Metway Limited (ASX: SUN) is an Australian finance,
insurance, and banking corporation based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It
is Australia's fifth-largest bank and second-largest general insurance group,
formed on 1 December 1996 by the merger of Suncorp, Metway Bank and the
Queensland Industry Development Corporation (QIDC).
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T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society
The T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society was an insurance
company that operated in Australia and New Zealand. The 'T & G' stood for
'Temperance & General'. The company was founded in 1876, emerging from the
Assurance branch of the Independent Order of Rechabites. The branch was severed
from the I.O.R Rechabite Lodge after six years of operations.
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