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Zurich launches iPhone app for life insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... risk and investment sales teams, which comprise of around 25 people, will be equipped with iPads to give them 24-hour on the road access to all online applications required to help them service advisers.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... results and BHP Billiton issues its September Quarter Production and Exploration & Development Report. Bradken Ltd, Country Road Ltd and The Reject Shop Ltd hold annual general meetings. The public examination continues into the collapse of Octaviar ...

OneVue on global path with managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... investment houses including ING, Challenger, Aviva Investors and Australian Unity. It also struck a deal with Yellow Brick Road (YBR), a new wealth management firm headed by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris. OneVue clients also include a large number ...

Key planners crucial when planning firms sell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... they might never recover - they might go and try and acquire another dealer group," he said. However, this could be a tough road to travel, as one of the problems with buying another dealer group is how to attract them if the buyer's business is already ...

Antin raises $1.5bn

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... an "extremely difficult market". "We were, however, able to attract some high quality investors early on, which paved the road for the success of our placement," said Rauscher in a statement. The firm's team diversity, quality of current investments ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... stock could be priced today based on the underlying company's ESG policies, and what the price could be 10 years down the road if those ESG policies don't change. Dr Voy said ESG is often seen as a the 'soft woolly' issue but a numerical strategy applied ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... years, we are going to rebuild 150,000 miles of our roads - that's enough to circle the world six times; that's a lot of road. We're going to lay and maintain 4,000 miles of our railways - enough to stretch coast-to-coast. We're going to restore 150 ...

CPPIB refines bid for Intoll

ASX RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Three weeks since the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced plans to buy Sydney-based toll road operator Intoll, the fund has come back to the table with a proposal to buy the entire issued capital of the firm. CPPIB submitted an ...

Planners risk buying bad businesses

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
It's a seller's market for financial planners looking to put their firms on the auction block - but planning groups that do buy risk failure as many do not focus enough on their acquisition's investment returns, according to AXA. Speaking at an AFA ...

MLC to drop Aviva insurance brand

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
In line with the terms of the sale of the Aviva insurance business and platform to NAB last year, the bank's insurance arm MLC will rename the acquired business' popular insurance product Aviva Protectionfirst to MLC Protectionfirst, effective October ...