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UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... competition targeting university graduates to find the next generation of financial advisers. Norwich Union, soon to be re-branded Aviva, launched The Future Adviser Programme with the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School and the Institute ...

Advisers award top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Asteron and Aviva were the joint awardees of this year's 2008 Life Insurance Company of the Year Award by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life. Challenger, which last year acquired the annuities portfolio of AXA, was named the ...

Aviva and Legg Mason hire more BDMs

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Aviva hired Adam Tyley and Davina Poletto as business development managers while Legg Mason appointed Lia Gunawan to a similar role. Tyley returns to Aviva after travelling around Europe. Before his stint at Aviva, Tyley worked at Professional Investment ...

Wide Bay tags Aviva insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Regional banking group Wide Bay Australia has teamed up with Aviva to offer life insurance to its clients. The new insurance, called 'Widecover LiFE' will be distributed throughout Wide Bay's 45 branches across regional Queensland from Cairns to the ...

Govt move aids planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... leave it in the market as long as possible for the eventual recovery [it allows them to do so]." To aid financial advisers, Aviva's platform includes a pension instalment suspension feature that allows clients to stop payments. All advisers need to do ...

Aviva prepares for equity investment surge

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Investors can start preparing for the upswing in the local equity market after Aviva launched a dollar cost averaging tool which allows them to gradually move some of their cash investments into other asset classes. The Progressive Switching Facility ...

Aviva SMA gets adviser tick

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Aviva is going to crack the separately managed accounts market in mid-2009 with a product solution tailored to easily fit into an adviser's portfolio. According to Aviva spokesman Tim Cobb, the group is currently at the end of the IT build of its SMA ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Cash and term deposit funds from St George, UBS and Adelaide Bank led the list of Aviva's top 10 funds for net inflows during 2008 while Platinum International Fund and Perpetual Wholesale Industrial Fund suffered the highest level of redemptions over ...

Instos target water usage

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... of 16 institutional and asset managers representing more than $2 trillion in assets including Souls Fund Management and Aviva Investors has sent a letter urging 100 major multinational company chief executives to carefully manage their water usage. The ...

Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Aviva has launched a new Income Daily Living product that insures non-working spouses and Australians in high risk occupations. The new product will offer protection to occupations traditionally classified as 'too risky', such as labourers, window cleaners ...