ARIMA MEETING DRAWS MORE THAN 400 TO SYDNEY

SYDNEY, Australia -- The 21st annual conference of the Assn. of Risk & Insurance Managers of Australasia attracted 440 delegates.

The conference was held Nov. 9-12 at the Sydney Hilton.

At the ARIMA annual general meeting during the conference, Brian Crews, insurance officer for Unilever Aust. Ltd., in Sydney, was re-elected president. Caroline Crompton, risk and insurance coordinator for West Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd., was elected senior vp.

The 1998 conference, on the theme Risk, A Profit Source?, will be in Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 15-18.

For information, contact: Conference Secretariat, Intermedia, P.O. Box 1280, Milton, Queensland, Australia, 4064; 61-7-3369-0477; fax: 61-7-3369-1512; electronic mail: arimaconf@im.com.au