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AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
AMP Financial Planning has recruited three new members to its products research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research ...

FTSE launches Asian sector indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Financial planners can access specific Asian sectors such as oil and gas, chemicals and health care for clients after FTSE Group released 18 new sector indices that target the region. This series of indices provide access to countries included on the ...

Mercer and Callan drop merger plans

COMPANY RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Mercer and Callan Associates have torn up the agreement to merge their investment consulting businesses. In a statement, Callan Associates said both firms agreed to terminate the agreement and would continue to grow their businesses independently. All ...

Zurich upgrades insurance suite

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Zurich Financial Services Australia improves the pricing of its life insurance products and revamps the firm's software to allow financial advisers to write insurance faster. The firm has cut the price of death cover and reduced the premium for TPD ...

ANZ sheds planning staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
ANZ plans to make 58 staff redundant from the bank's financial planning division citing poorer-than-expected demand for advice. According to an ANZ spokesperson, the bank reviewed its financial planning division numbers and cut the number of roles by ...

Tech unclogs insurance bottlenecks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Insurance underwriting will become less of a headache for financial planners after key insurers introduced automated underwriting into their products, a major leap from the days of error-prone rate books and simple quotation software. Only three years ...

AFS school boosts revenues by 27 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... interactive AFS Summer School allows participants to learn strategies that can be used to address high level business objectives, plan for on-going growth and enhance the firm's customer service. Each Summer School delegate is required to submit three ...

Back to the drawing board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... Confidence is not fully restored. And confidence will not be fully restored until there is a viable, consistent and concerted plan of action - not ad hoc decisions based on the mood of the day.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower with US and European stock markets experiencing heavy falls on weaker economic sentiment. At 0725 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 57 points at 3,559. In ...

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Technology firm Sybase plans to help local investment managers avoid the mistakes of Wall Street when it launched a trading technology platform that alerts an investment firm to counterparty risk problems sooner rather than later. Last week, Sybase ...