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Job freezes to thaw: Watson Wyatt

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... looking to eliminate these plans within the next 12 months. Nearly 70 per cent of those that have frozen employee salaries also plan to rid themselves of these plans in the same timeframe. Subsequently 48 per cent of companies that have reduced their ...

Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
The sale of Aviva Australia to NAB raises questions on the future revenue flows of Aviva Investors Australia, the local fund management business excluded from the deal. Aviva Investors Australia, formerly Portfolio Partners, is one of the largest and ...

NAB/Aviva deal fuels insurance shake-up

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... inflows and one that claims a 15.5 per cent share of the market - usurping CommInsure's top spot in the category. Figures from Plan for Life note that for the 2008 calendar year, NAB/MLC Group garnered 12 per cent of market share for total risk premium ...

NAB and Aviva rule platform land

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
NAB's acquisition of Aviva Australia's Navigator business will create the largest platform provider with $69 billion in funds under management and more than 2,900 advisers using its services. NAB, which announced it had agreed to purchase Aviva Australia's ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Short-lived speculation that former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello was about to be appointed by the Labor government to a leading position in running the Future Fund shows the fund is still poorly understood, three years after its launch. Rumours ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Swanson leaves CommInsure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... posted an 18 per cent growth in total risk premium inflows last year, 6 per cent higher than the market average, according to Plan for Life. The group has also received numerous awards including the Plan for Life/AFA 2007 Life Insurance Company of the ...

GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A new survey found 7 per cent of Australians took out additional insurance since the financial crisis began and the number of those who felt they were "very well insured" halved. The AXA 2009 Protection Report found the number of respondents that said ...

Asian fund taps Dixon for cap raising

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
The ASX-listed Asian Masters Fund has approached financial planning firm Dixon Advisory & Superannuation Services for a capital raising. An ASX statement noted the deal will be conducted through an issue of ordinary shares at an issue price of $1.00 ...

Charter needs legislative backing: ISN

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... Super Charter appears to encourage employers to enter an agreement with the financial adviser who sells a corporate super plan as to what commissions are deducted from employees' accounts. "While the recent statement of both IFSA and the Financial Planners ...