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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... leading shares suffered a fall on Friday after the US indices also took a hit, but gains for financial services group Friends Provident helped to soften the blow. The FTSE 100 closed down 55 points to 6585.2, losing 131.5 points during the week. FRANKFURT ...

R&D and new clients drive a transformed Bravura

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
... complementary wealth management applications. Bravura has also won a range of new clients in the UK-based Nucleus Financial Group, Friends Provident and Cardif Pinnacle and is still in negotiations with New York Life International in relation to the ...

Smart 401(k) plan design boosts their take-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... "More options increases participation while complexity reduces participation." Soft factors such as opinions of family, friends, and colleagues, educational materials and seminars, the availability of other pension plans, and member characteristics also ...

Financial Wisdom trumpets its Platinum Advantage

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... said his website had experienced a 67 per cent increase in traffic since he had invited all of his clients, their family, friends and business associates to take up the Platinum Advantage offers. "Platinum Advantage has provided a real value added benefit ...

AXA's value of advice translating into happy customers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... advice' strategy found that more than 90 per cent of clients were so happy with their adviser they would recommend them to friends and colleagues. The study was undertaken by WA Taylor & Associates to investigate customer perceptions around their dealings ...

Gen Xers jump online for home loans: Forrester

Internet savvy Gen Xers aren't just using the web to download music, chat to friends and trade on Ebay. A new survey has found a growing number of them use it for more serious reasons such as applying for home loans too. Research group Forrester has ...

Bravura expands in UK with Friends Provident

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
Financial services applications provider Bravura Solutions has partnered with listed UK group Friends Provident to provide wrap solutions for advisers. The applications are based on Bravura's existing Sonata Wrap system and similarly will provide an ...

AMPFP scraps industry funds

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
... trusts with or without commission, if ratings agencies do a good job of researching funds& in other words, I'm making no friends in the industry," Collins said. However, Collins said that the industry was evolving and new models may open up. "The industry ...

Intrust goes public offer

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
... Instrust's chief executive officer, Brendan O'Farrell, said they will market the Intrust Super Fund Select to relatives and friends of current members and people associated with the industry. "While we are keen to grow and enrol new members, we will ...

Super choice information overload

... years and we see credible advice as a cornerstone of that. And where do people turn for that advice? It's not so much from friends, but it's more likely to be from employers." The three speakers all agreed that over the short term the introduction of ...