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Darby buys into Mexican housing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
Darby Overseas Investments, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton, continue to put more money into the Mexican housing finance market after this month injecting funds into construction finance firm Controladora Vertice. Darby said that its financial ...

Rainmaker unveils winners of the 2010 Marketing Excellence Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... Flexible Lifetime - Super Easy reactivation campaign - AMP * Mercer Rollover "Two Wallets" Campaign - Mercer 6. Best Innovation of the Year WINNER: ING MoneyForLife - ING NOMINEES * Best Doctors service; new to Australia and exclusive to MLC - MLC * ...

Tower names chief underwriter, new mgr

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... Australia's next generation life insurance platform, Accelerated Protection, and we look forward to her bringing further innovation across the Tower Australia service model," said Banfield. Jason Scott will join the company in the role of national fulfilment ...

Rainmaker unveils 2010 award nominees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... Best New Superannuation Product of the Year and Best Advertising Campaign of the Year. This year's nominees for Best Innovation of the Year include ING, MLC, Asteron, AXA, TASLPAN and CommInsure. Rainmaker Marketer of the Year nominees for 2010 are Barry ...

CommInsure and Zurich win insurance awards

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... insurer. The group won the award by scoring the highest marks on responsiveness to both end-user and intermediary needs; innovation; industry leadership, and finally, in speed and effectiveness when assessing risks and handling claims. Rayson took the ...

Fin centre plans hang in the balance: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... salary costs of two staff. "One of the key aims underlying the work of the centre will be to foster financial sector innovation, while ensuring the risk inherent in the financial system is appropriately managed through best practice regulation," said ...

IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... because the competition regulator, the ACCC, believes the North platform is likely to play a major role in future market innovation and if it moves into the NAB stable, this will significantly dent market competition. "AXA's North platform has the potential ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... Portfolio Services up five -fold in a year and AXA's North platform suit which has tripled in a year. Showing the impact of innovation in the platform market, the low cost BT Super For Life product grew 120 per cent in the 12 months to March 2010 and ...

The disappearing act of lose-lose funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... business). On product development, one in two respondents are ramping up their internal expertise on asset allocation and innovation, with the clear remit that the days when bull markets buoyed poorly-designed products are long gone. More than one in ...

Super funds lead advice charge

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Super funds will lead innovation in the advice sector as intra-fund advice grows, leaving many advisers to play catch up, according to tech firm, Provisio Technologies. A number of superannuation funds now deliver advice with greater efficiency than ...