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AAMI is a leading Australian insurer providing car, home and compulsory third party (CTP) personal injury insurance. AAMI commenced business on 1 January 1970 in Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. AAMI employs approximately 3500 people nationally in some 50 offices, branches and customer service centres, who deal directly and personally with 2.7 million customers who hold 3.1 million policies.
AAMI’s achievements include being awarded State and National Awards including Best of the Best (under 10,000 employees) in the 2005-06 Australian Service Excellence Awards, State and National Charter Awards (2004 Australian Service Excellence Awards), General Insurance Company of the Year (2004 Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards), State and National Winner in the 2004 Australian Safer Communities Awards, Winner of Best General Insurance Product (2004) and Best Insurance Web site (2003, 2004 & 2005) in Australian Banking and Finance Magazine’s Annual Insurance Awards, being named among the ‘Best Employers to Work for in Australia’ (Australian Graduate School of Management, 2001), Victorian and National Australian Customer Service Awards (Australian Customer Service Association, 1997), the inaugural Sir Edmund Rice Ethics Award (1997) and the Fair Trader of the Year Award (Victorian Government, 1996).
For more information visit www.aami.com.au
Westpac began trading on 8 April, 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales with a single office in Macquarie Place, Sydney, in the then British colony of New South Wales. We changed our name in 1982. Westpac merged with Challenge Bank in Western Australia in 1995, Trust Bank New Zealand in 1996, and Bank of Melbourne in Victoria in 1997.
We have branches and affiliates throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region and maintain offices in key financial centres around the world, employing approximately 27,000 people.
Westpac is ranked in the top 10 listed companies by market capitalisation on the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX). As at 31 March 2007, Westpac Banking Corporation had global assets of $300 billion. For the six months to 31 March 2007, the Westpac Group's net profit after income tax was $1,641 million.
Westpac's operations comprise six key areas of business, through which we serve around seven million customers. These six business areas are:
- Consumer Financial Services is responsible for sales, services and product development for our consumer customers across Australia and manages third party consumer product relationships and the retail branch operations in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Business Financial Services is responsible for sales, service and product development for small and medium sized business customers in Australia. It also has responsibility for group-wide working capital and specialised trade solutions operations and the management of our third party business product relationships.
- BT Financial Group Australia comprises our asset accumulation, investment management and life insurance operations in Australia. Wealth Management designs, manufactures and services financial products to enable customers to build, manage and protect their wealth. These products include managed investments (mutual funds), superannuation (pensions), life insurance, income protection, discount securities broking, margin lending, client portfolio administration (Wrap) platforms and portfolio management and administration of corporate superannuation. We also provide custody and settlement services to institutional customers and fund managers.
- Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB) provides financial services to the corporate and institutional customer base, assisting and advising in the management of cash, funding, capital and market risk for companies and institutions in Australia and New Zealand.
- New Zealand Retail provides a full range of retail and commercial services to customers throughout New Zealand. It is the leading provider of banking services to small to medium business and is the banker of the New Zealand government.
- Pacific Banking provides a full range of deposit, loan, transaction account and international trade facilities to personal and business customers.
For more information visit: Westpac Assist