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Snowball expands 'segmented advice'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
Snowball Group marks 2011 as another year of providing more services in the area of 'segmented advice' after posting a healthy increase in its half-year profits. Tony McDonald, managing director of Snowball, said the group is performing well as it prepares ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... and inflation's rising? But what matters is his view. Big Ben controls the money tap. And right now his brain is telling ours that he would keep on tracking. That's good for risk assets but bad for inflation... as many emerging markets which blame the ...

Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
For three years, Zurich's Group Risk business in Australia has stayed relatively below the radar. That will now change after the insurer scored a hiring coup - successfully recruiting the key team of rival IUS Life, including general manager, Phil Collins. ...

AXA elevates RACV for advisers

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... a strong consumer association, the right brand loyalty and positioning, but also one that has a similar member profile as ours," said Michael Rogers, AXA general manager financial protection. "This deal is exclusive, we have exclusivity to their member ...

RBC Dexia bags top rated status

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... they become more profitable and successful, they will look at their operating models and that is where companies such as ours comes in." "I think we are well positioned to take advantage of the changes and shifts that will happen this year," said Travers ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
So much for Australia's vision of itself as a world financial centre as Oprah has shown that all the world wants from us is Kangaroos, Koalas, sunny beaches and iron ore. Or is that the wrong way to look at the frenzy now supposedly gripping the nation ...

Fox elected AFA president

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Brad Fox is the AFA's newly-elected national president, taking over a two-year term alongside new vice president Adam Smith. Fox, previously on the AFA board as the representative of the GenXt (AFA's sub-group of members made up of the younger advisers) ...

Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The fight over commissions on investment products and superannuation is over. Advisers must stop debating over them and switch their focus to influencing their future. Opening the 2010 AFA annual conference in front of a packed auditorium with almost ...

Planners urged to address ethics

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Trust is fundamental to the advice relationship - but planners need to ask themselves why they rank so low on the ethics and honesty scale among Australians who don't seek advice, said the AFA. Jim Taggart, national president of the Association of Financial ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... the US and continental Europe dominate the top 500, countries with smaller economies, and smaller investment markets than ours, including South Africa, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, all have entries in the top 100. With the exception of South Africa (boosted ...