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Mother's Day Classic raises $4.5m for breast cancer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
Women in Super's Mother's Day Classic has raised $4.5 million for the National Breast Cancer Foundation in its 2014 campaign. This brings the total figure raised to $24.3 million since the campaign first ran in 1998. Mother's Day Classic National Chair ...

TAL Direct appoints marketing head

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... numerous "white label" alliances producing life insurance products and services for businesses such as Virgin Money, NIB and AFG.

Ibbotson secures NEO Financial Solutions mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... group's advice processes and practice management. Founded by Mark Edman and Mark Woods, both Woods and Edman were formerly with AFG in Perth who were acquired by Sentry Group in October 2009. At that time it was reported the acquisition increased Sentry ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
"...the United States has no better friend than Australia." This was US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressing young Australians at the University of Melbourne yesterday. Her statement was made in the context of America and Australia's unbending ...

Fastest growing planners book above 30pc growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
AFG Financial Planning, Senty Financial Services and Shadforth Financial are among the top 10 fastest growing financial adviser groups, all of which posted more than 30 per cent growth of adviser numbers each year over the past three years, Rainmaker ...

Securitor tags AFG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... Securitor has appointed Australian Finance Group as the provider of mortgage aggregation services to advisers. The deal will see AFG provide mortgage aggregation services to Magnitude and Securitor advisers. "Advisers should be identifying that, with ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
"I've got chills, they're multiplying. And I'm losing control..." Grease. With European sovereign debt crisis still dangling over their heads like a "Damocles sword" - hey, isn't he Greek? - financial markets are again presented another source of worry. ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
Europhobe. Dictionary.com defines this as "a person who dislikes Europe, its culture, and Europeans," to which we may now add, the euro. Yes Virginia, it seems most of us are turning Europhobes now. Greece gave euros a bad smell and now financial markets ...

AMP selects AFG for mortgage aggregation

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... Group to provide mortgage aggregation services - a move that diversifies its previous internal mortgage aggregation structure. AFG will provide mortgage aggregation services to AMP FP's financial planners and accredited mortgage consultants. Some of ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
The Dow's hold on that elusive 10K-point mark remains elusive. Perhaps it is the consensus' way of affirming that, indeed, the market has run ahead of itself. Wall Street slid further overnight with the Dow slipping further below the 10K mark despite ...