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AXA hits $10bn on platform but continues to build

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
AXA's Summit platform has ridden a tide of strong sales and continued support from advisers past its milestone of $10 billion in funds under administration (FUA). June and July saw AXA record all time record sales, taking FUA past the $10 billion mark ...

Max Super to go max Direct with investment funds

Incumbent financial services providers will face a new threat early next year when online super fund max Super launches its own branded investment funds, to be called max Direct. Co-founder and chief executive of max Super, Andrew Barlow, said the group ...

Spectrum Super adds and subtracts from menu

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
Trustee SMF Funds Management has announced changes to the Spectrum Super investment menu after a review of available options, resulting in significant additions and some funds being removed from the list. New funds to be added to the menu are the Bendigo ...

Sherry wins Labor votes with simple super plan

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
Labor Shadow Minister for Superannuation, Nick Sherry, impressed audiences at the annual IFSA conference on the Gold Coast on Friday, unveiling a plan for combined pension and superannuation forecasts. If voted in at the next election Labor would implement ...

Borrowers in trouble after rate hike

... one of the leading financial planners at ANZ Financial Planning, expects that more people will start shopping around to switch to a better home loan and consider income protection insurance. "I think the interest rate rise is going to create a churn ...

Govt moves on bankruptcy super shield

The Federal Government has abandoned its previously proposed line of attack towards bankrupt individuals who try to dodge their creditors by exploiting a super loophole, instead adopting a more common sense approach to the long-running problem. Late ...

AMP caught on conflicts

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... that in almost half of the cases reviewed planners failed to give adequate disclosure or a reasonable basis for advice to switch superannuation funds and, in a lot of cases, failed to disclose the costs incurred by switching. ASIC's investigations, which ...

Investors don't use timeframes when choosing options: FuturePlus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
... stand-out finding from the research is that investors are seemingly indifferent to time horizons when making investment switch decisions. "I was astonished to find that investors seemed indifferent to the time horizon of their chosen portfolios, whether ...

Navigator adds tax benefit to death payments

Starting this month, all of Navigator's super products will feature 'anti-detriment' payments to beneficiaries, a move that could boost a member's additional death payment by as much as $100,000. The group said that all of their retirement plans will ...

Industry funds target top end with TV campaign part 2

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
High net worth individuals are among the broader television audience that can expect to be targeted in round two of the controversial industry superannuation funds campaign that first aired on national television last year. The new campaign will feature ...