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People & Products

MLC has picked from AXA’s senior ranks again – this time recruiting former national development manager for AXA’s Financial Advice Network, Chris Matloc...

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Editorial

With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...

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Financial planning

Institutions may claim that product biases in buyer of last resort (BOLR) agreements have been removed, but grandfathering arrangements have meant that, up to five years ...

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Financial planning

AXA Australia has signed a deal with the Royal Automotive Club of Victoria (RACV) which will see the company offer a discount on its life insurance products to RACV&#8217...

Funds management

An overwhelming majority of the total new Australian managed funds launched in 2010 were not new investment strategies, according to research house Morningstar....

People & Products

AMP Financial Services has boosted its group risk team, adding three new appointments – Victoria Simpson, Jenny Vaitsas and Chris Taylor....

Financial planning

Colonial First State Property will acquire AXA’s Melbourne headquarters at 750 Collins Street through its Commonwealth Property Office Fund....

Financial planning

AXA AP minority shareholders expected to vote on AMP bid by end of first quarter next year....

Financial planning

An AXA retirement survey has revealed that only 46 per cent of Australians would support an increase in the superannuation guarantee, nearly half the level of support rep...

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Life/Risk

Almost half of adviser income from risk advice in the last 12 months came from new clients, with one in five advisers writing more than $100,000 in new risk premiums, acc...

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Financial planning

AMP’s merger bid for AXA Asia Pacific has been cleared by AXA's independent directors, leaving few hurdles remaining....

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Funds management

Investment teams may come and go, but there has been very little turnover in most multi-manager funds, according to the latest Lonsec Multi-Manager Sector Review....

Life/Risk

Introducing an additional insurer – Asteron – on its FirstChoice platform may make Colonial First State a leader, but it appears to be short of followers at p...

People & Products

Equity Trustees has strengthened its focus on Western Australia and added resources to New South Wales business development for funds management, with the appointment of ...

Financial planning

FIIG Securities' Stephen Hart examines fixed income assets and explores the arguments relating to direct investment or the use of managed funds....

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