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AMP planning associations adopt insight products

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... membership with what we feel are the highest value services to support them through this intense period of change," said Neil Whelan, chief executive, AFPA. 'Planners are busy providing a valuable service to their clients," said Adrian Johnstone, managing ...

Outsourcing FM admin doesn't reduce staff

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
Australian investment managers who outsource their investment operations have only 8% less staff than those who manage their operations internally, according to new research by Investit. The SimCorp sponsored Future of Investment Operations report found ...

Govt provides reverse mortgage guarantees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Federal Government has made its first move in the race to fiscally manage the ageing population, with the release of draft legislation to increase protection around reverse mortgages. Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation ...

Government bowing to pressure on super risk commissions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The government looks set to revoke plans to altogether ban commissions on risk insurance within superannuation as it prepares to submit draft legislations on the future of financial advice in September. Speaking at the Financial Services Council conference ...

AMP embeds AXA management into new structure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... AXA's unaffected financial advice network. AMP private wealth management will be embedded into ipac, whose managing director Neil Swindell stays in charge. Jack Regan continues to lead AFS New Zealand, which outlined its own new structure and management ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Challenger emerged as the biggest winner from the 2011 Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards Dinner last night, picking up three awards, while PIMCO, Legg Mason and AustralianSuper each scooped two. The awards dinner, compared by ABC newsreader ...

Hillross acquires $2.2 billion planning group

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
AMP affiliated planning group Hillross Financial Services has agreed to acquire IRIS Financial Group, winning a competitive process that attracted eight first round offers and saw four parties conduct due diligence. Hillross will provide licensee services ...

Call for self-funded retirees inclusion

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
Sunday's carbon tax announcement has produced mixed results for pensioners with approximately 285,000 self-funded retirees to miss out on the compensation scheme for pensioners, according to the National Seniors Australia. As it stands now, pensioners ...

Credit Suisse appoints former BlackRock MD

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... all three of our business lines, across alternative investments, asset allocation and advisory and emerging markets," said Neil Harvey, head of asset management, Asia Pacific. "We are confident that he will co-ordinate the Bank's global network to deliver ...

Company streamlines pension transfers from UK to Australia

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... UK amassing pensions which are difficult and time consuming to transfer to Australia, especially for financial advisers. Neil Jones, director of Pension Porter, a company set up to handle pension transfers, said they had deployed a cloud-based computing ...