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ACFS names award finalists

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... areas of investment process, fund governance, risk management, investment philosophy, service quality, and product innovation. Meanwhile, the finalists for the MFSS 2011 Investment Stewardship Award for Superannuation Funds are: Australian Ethical Investment ...

Tower posts strong growth in direct and life ins

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... infrastructure; growing and establishing new long term distribution relationships such as with nib and Virgin Money; product innovation in the direct market space and consolidation of a number of legacy products. "We continue to see significant levels ...

Aviva Investors and Cbus win awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies 2010 Investment Stewardship Awards. The awards recognise achievement in product innovation, service, investment philosophy, corporate governance and risk management practices. Applicants must be private sector investment ...

Life insurance consolidation could hurt consumers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Australians will suffer the price of higher margin products and limited product innovation if the life insurance market continues to consolidate, warns Tower Australia. Jim Minto, managing director of Tower Australia, urged the government and Australian ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... investment option for most institutional investors... while the development of the sector has driven a great deal of product innovation, institutional investors should consider ETFs in conjunction with alternative options because ETFs generally have ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... our customers, industry and Government to help improve the efficiency of the superannuation industry through product innovation and the roll-out of electronic solutions to employers," he added. The SuperChoice clearinghouse service performs advanced ...

UniSuper wins Investment Stewardship award

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... inaugural Investment Stewardship Award. To win the award, finalists were evaluated according to financial results, product innovation, service quality, investment philosophy, corporate governance and risk management.

Protect super savings: PwC survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... managers considered protecting retirement savings using 'investment guarantees' as the single most important product innovation for retirees in the coming years. An investment guarantee would ensure superannuation balances don't deteriorate in falling ...

Insurers slow on green IT

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... environment can still have a significant net benefit. "By placing a greater emphasis on performance metrics such as product innovation, time-to-market and sales effectiveness, insurers will be more effective in pushing products with green incentives ...

Rainmaker Marketing Awards celebrate best of the best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... Australia's North won superannuation product of the year while Aviva Australia's Riskfirst was awarded the best product innovation of the year. In addition, AMP Capital Investors' Core Infrastructure Fund received the Rainmaker Best New Investment Product ...