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AIA appoints head of group operations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
AIA Australia has appointed Margaret Canavan as head of group operations. The role will manage the company's underwriting, administration and claims functions within the Group Insurance sector. Canavan joined AIA Australia in 2004 bringing with her ...

AMP Capital targets Japanese savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... Japanese retail investors. So far, AMP Capital has been able to raise $4 billion from Japanese investors. Clarke said the plan is to broaden the range to capitalise on the demand for higher returning income products and use its QFII China licence to ...

Telstra Super rolls out phone advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
Australia's largest corporate super fund, the $9 billion Telstra Super, has upgraded its financial planning offering by introducing phone-based advice. Telstra Super Financial Planning, which had $4.9 billion in funds under advice and over 18,000 clients ...

Trust launches strategy review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Trust chief executive and managing director, John Atkin, and a number of other executives at the firm have launched a strategic review of the business. The review was announced Bruce Corlett, chair at Trust, yesterday at the company's annual general ...

HESTA ready for advice boom

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
The $12 billion HESTA Super fund is ready to roll out intra-fund advice to its members following the Government's new legislative changes - a result achieved through its existing financial advice infrastructure. HESTA has had its advice program in place ...

IT dept holds key to cost cutting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Super funds and fund managers could reduce their cost base through technology after research found cloud computing can save more than $12,000 a year in electricity bills. A NetSuite sustainability impact survey and using information from a study by ...

Financial planning is key: Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Westpac chief executive and managing director, Gail Kelly, said in a briefing yesterday that the bank's financial planning business is central to Westpac's multi-brand strategy. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch briefing, Kelly said ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
CommInsure has launched WriteAway, a new straight through processing platform for risk insurance that could provide financial planners with an underwriting decision within 20 to 30 minutes. The group said that following a review of existing insurance ...

Yellow Brick Road drops acquisition strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Yellow Brick Road, the financial planning business developed by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, has dumped its acquisition strategy for an organic growth branch model - with the aim to open 150 practices in three years. Bouris said the business' ...

Macq Private Wealth seeks advisers and alliances

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Macquarie Private Wealth is on the hunt for more strategic alliances and looking to add to its adviser numbers. MPW, which currently has 426 advisers, full service stockbrokers and private bankers in Australia and New Zealand, most recently formed a ...