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Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... said that their strategy is not to compete head-on with the likes of Tower or ING but to strengthen their employer consultancy relationships. "We are a niche player. The way we would differentiate ourselves is through our global capability, which allows ...

Vow names new chief

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... services sector and offer non-mortgage products," Zulman said at the time. Zulman will still be involved with Vow in a consultancy capacity. Vow Financial is made up of merger companies National Brokers Group, The Mortgage Professionals and The Brokerage ...

Fixed fee model in slow burn

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Fiona Trafford-Walker, chief executive of Frontier Consulting, said the asset consultancy has experienced "modest success" in getting fund managers to adopt the novel fee model they proposed more than a year ago. Trafford-Walker said there have been ...

Fee-for-service products gain pace

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... launched to help planners handle the transition.E&W Strategic Partners, a boutique business strategy and improvement consultancy, has developed an FPA-accredited handbook as a transition tool for planners moving towards fee-for-service. The Fee-For-Service ...

Towers Watson looks to non-life insurance

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010

Plan for Life offloads LifeRisk Online

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... that the company will look at a range of services and products including quotation systems for web and smartphones, consultancy services, risk insurance benchmarking for Plan For Life and LifeRisk Online. Dingjan worked with Plan For Life and developed ...

BTFG drops van Eyk for S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... exchange-traded funds, managed funds, separately managed accounts, direct property and structured products along with consultancy advice to BTFG Research. In a similar development, one of Australia's largest financial planning groups, Count Financial ...

Advisers of tomorrow are 'choice architects'

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... insight into how to respond to data is more valuable. In a separate session, Louise Biti, director of the Strategy Steps consultancy, said the potential is not just for managing the person going into care but reaching out to and working with their families. ...

Addwealth appoints head BDM

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... business model. Simultaneously, Pratt also developed and ran his own successful member firm and financial advisory consultancy in Sydney, Investment & Financial Planning, for 30 years. Prior to starting Investment & Financial Planning, Pratt began his ...

MLC appoints former Fidelity global CIO

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... next year. Condon stepped down as CIO in February, a position he has held since 1998, to start his own investment consultancy. Meanwhile, acting CIO, Dr Susan Gosling, will continue in her role as MLC's head of capital markets research. A MLC spokesperson ...