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AMP hires sales execs for IFAs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
AMP has appointed seven new people to its IFA Protection team in response to more demand for its enhanced risk offer in the IFA channel. Dan Powell, director IFA and alliance distribution said the appointments allows the firm to meet the increased demand ...

MLC to drop Aviva insurance brand

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
In line with the terms of the sale of the Aviva insurance business and platform to NAB last year, the bank's insurance arm MLC will rename the acquired business' popular insurance product Aviva Protectionfirst to MLC Protectionfirst, effective October ...

Broking firms back Suncorp update

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
Stock research arms of Citi and Goldman Sachs JBWere give a thumbs up to Suncorp's new strategy to distribute risk insurance products directly through GIO, AAMI and APIA while continuing to develop its financial advice channel business. Geoff Summerhayes ...

Guardian launches wrap platform

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
Guardian Financial Planning has launched Vantage Portfolio Solutions, a platform that gives investors, who have reached their super contribution limit, an alternative channel for their savings. The wrap platform is a white label version of Colonial ...

Ausmaq goes live on SWIFT tech

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
Ausmaq has become the first Australian investment platform to use live automated funds transaction processing over SWIFT technology. Mark Candy, general manager client services Ausmaq, said using SWIFT was an extension of the firm's push to drive automation ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
"Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round..." - Upside Down, Diana Ross If there's any observation that can be made about Wall Street's movement overnight, it is that investor sentiment remains fragile. Just when financial markets ...

Suncorp names exec manager of life risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
Suncorp Life has appointed former Aviva general manager of distribution, Richard Bellis, as executive manager of life risk adviser solutions. Bellis worked as general manager of distribution at Aviva between 2006 and December 2009 and has held a number ...

Discounted life cover at Asteron

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
Everyone loves a discount - so planners looking to boost their clients' life cover can now ask them to look at Asteron, which is offering premium reductions under a new policy that rewards "good health". The Healthy Plus Option offers Asteron Lifeguard ...

KiwiSaver eggs more savings, but not enough

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
A survey has found far more New Zealanders are saving money for retirement but very few are using the KiwiSaver scheme to its full potential. AMP's SuperWatch survey found KiwiSaver is the preferred retirement savings option with 67 per cent of respondents ...

Asteron leaves KiwiSaver market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Asteron is pulling out of the New Zealand KiwiSaver market. The firm is winding up its KiwiSaver Scheme at the end of May, which had more than 6,000 members with approximately $33 million in funds under management (FUM). The decision to withdraw from ...