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AMP puts greater store in insurance

Financial giant AMP will focus on risk insurance as a key factor in restoring the 160-year old company to its former glory.

Speaking at the company AGM last week, CEO Craig Dunn identified five priorities key to harnessing sustainable growth.

They are cost efficiency, employer-sponsored superannuation growth, new business channels, productivity gains and a greater focus on non-retirement business.

“This means diversifying our revenue sources so that we build stronger businesses in non-superannuation areas, like risk insurance and retail banking,” he said.

AMP’s bottom-line profit fell 41% last year to $580 million. The company made 300 staff redundant in the fourth quarter of last year and has instituted a pay freeze and one unpaid day per month at the executive and senior management level.