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MLC and HIP partner in insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
MLC Group Insurance has partnered with Health Industry Plan (HIP) to develop group insurance enhancements for the fund's members, including a 20 per cent rise in death cover benefits. The new partnership will see HIP members receive an increase of death ...

Tower improves Accelerated Protection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... firm is looking to make Accelerated Protection simpler and faster to use, following adviser feedback. There are four enhancements to the income protection component, including the removal of the 14-day total disability requirement for blue collar workers. ...

AMP launches planning course

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... "We are also considering increasing our online capability, to complement the face-to-face capabilities with further enhancements to online training ability to reach regional candidates," said Steele. Education is a hot topic in the financial planning ...

CommInsure boosts retail life offering

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... cent in rewards upon renewal which can applied to premiums to the following year. CommInsure has also completed 40 enhancements to its WriteAway underwriting rules engine to increase automatic acceptances and launched Life Facts Profiler - a database ...

Asgard appoints new head

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... regulatory reform agenda and he knows how to motivate a team to consistently deliver high quality projects and product enhancements."

Coding error review prompts sell rating

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... global financial crisis has led many quantitative managers to review and test their models and consider potential enhancements. We consider this to be an important part of the ongoing maintenance of these types of strategies. We feel that until AXA Rosenberg ...

BT Wrap signs five-year deal with DKN

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... of platforms administered by BT," said Butterworth. "Our advisers have been very receptive to the recent platform enhancements including the new suite of insurance products and bulk trading functionality and eagerly await the roll-out of the model portfolio ...

New benchmarks for better retirement: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... to the needs of both retirees and those planning for retirement," said Pauline Vamos, ASFA chief executive. "The enhancements made will also make it easier for retirees to adjust for major spending changes such as rapidly increasing energy prices," she ...

MLC cuts Wellington and appoints Carnegie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... an equal 12.5 per cent allocation of its portfolio to each of its eight incumbent managers. These changes follow enhancements to the strategy announced last year, which saw the firm outperform the benchmark by 1.3 per cent over the year to 31 March 2010 ...

Westpac upgrades online trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... enhanced, dynamic charting and intuitive display of rich market information through tools such as Market Map. Other enhancements to the Westpac Online Investing site include the Most Popular Stock feature, which allows investors to see what others are ...