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AXA IM appoints Asia Pacific head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Simon Flood to replace Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of its Asia Pacific business. Leoni is returning to his native France after four years in Asia. He will lead AXA IM's client management group. Based in Hong ...

NAB appoints IPAC Securities co-founder to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... start on the new role on November 5, 2014. Gupta founded wealth management firm IPAC Securities, which was later acquired by AXA and now sits under AMP Group. He has served as a director on trustee and responsible entity boards since the 1990s, and he ...

Governance eclipses social and environmental concerns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Governance almost totally eclipses environmental and social factors when it comes to stakeholder concern, a report by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has shown. The report showed that stakeholders with voting rights are overwhelmingly concerned with ...

Hunter Hall appoints head of retail sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Management (Hunter Hall) has appointed Barbara Glover as head of retail sales and marketing. Glover has held positions with AXA, AMP Capital, ING Direct and NAB Wealth. Most recently she was distribution executive with the Endowment Bond Exchange. Hunter ...

ANZ head of aligned licensees leaves, joins van Eyk

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... Eyk Research. Flynn has over 20 years' financial services experience working for companies including ANZ, ING, Zurich and AXA Ireland. "David will oversee the appointment and on-boarding of high quality advisers and practices which value independent ...

Premium increases boost life risk inflows 11.5%

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... an annual growth of 21.2% and BT/ Westpac grew by 19.1%. The Plan For Life data confirmed that TAL has taken over from AMP/AXA as Australia's biggest life insurer. TAL now owns 14.7% of the market share, ahead of AMP's 14.3%. In December 2012, AMP was ...

Mercer allocates $150M AXA IM global SmartBeta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA Investment Managers' global investment grade SmartBeta credit strategy. The mandate complements other managers within Mercer's global credit portfolio and aims at achieving ...

TAL takes over from AMP as biggest life insurer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
TAL has taken over from AMP/AXA as Australia's biggest life insurer after years of market dominance by the latter, research by DEXX&R has shown. The Life Analysis Report showed that TAL's in-force premiums for its total risk business had reached $1.87 ...

AXA IM includes ESG in smart beta offering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has developed a smart beta investment option that includes environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. The ESG version of AXA IM's SmartBeta solution will be presented to institutional investors as an alternative ...

AXA IM to expand outside of Europe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
AXA Investment Managers is seeking to expand its presence outside of Europe, with plans to strengthen its footprint in Asia, including Australia and Japan, and the Americas. AXA IM former head of consultant relations Tim Gardener will head up a new ...