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Aviva cuts super to pension admin time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia improved its online adviser software, n-link, to enable financial planners to set up pension accounts and allow clients to receive payments in three days, a fraction of the time needed on other platforms. Previously, financial advisers ...

Rainmaker Marketing Awards celebrate best of the best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... won best advertising campaign in the trade division. AXA 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 ...

IMAP gains Aviva muscle

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... Accounts Providers (IMAP) is aiming to spread the platform reach of separately managed accounts (SMAs) with the appointment of Aviva manager of investment products, Peter Rowley, as an IMAP director. Rowley currently heads up the wealth management investment ...

Advisers change tack on life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... total offer and that includes technology and those who don't get on board will be left behind." Indeed, Natalie Eckersall, Aviva Australia general manager of wealth protection products, said the firm's technology improvements focus on reducing insurance ...

Aviva super gives $800 tax refund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
Customers invested in Aviva Australia's Navigator Personal Retirement Plan received an $800 tax refund, on average, last financial year. Andrew Barker, Aviva Australia's (Aviva) general manager of wealth management products, said the pension product ...

Advisers endorse rural insurance top guns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Rabo Financial Advisers (RFA) is set to boost its risk insurance relationships with Aviva, Asteron and CommInsure after they were identified as leaders in providing risk insurance to primary producers and regional businesses. The financial planning ...

Aviva cuts accountants from insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
Aviva Australia has improved its medical and financial underwriting services by removing the need for financial advisers to include an accountant's signature, regardless of the sum insured. According to the firm, if the sum insured is less than $3 million ...

Aviva buys Madison Harbor Capital

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
Aviva plc has confirmed it is acquiring the assets of Madison Harbor Capital, a US real estate multi-manager that participates in over $26 billion of real estate deals. Ed Casal and Russ Bates, the founders of Madison, along with the rest of the firm's ...

Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
Sylvia Falzon has been appointed head of business development at Portfolio Partners. Falzon's appointment follows Aviva's announcement last month that it was merging ten of its global asset managers under one banner, Aviva Investors. As head of business ...

Aviva breaks industry fund hurdle

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Wealth management group Aviva has stolen the march on rival industry funds by combining industry fund-style simplicity with retail fund-style service in its Navigator Business Super. It's like Aviva has capitulated to, and yet conquered, competition ...