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Custom Solutions flows double in June qtr

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... attracted an extra $64 million during the quarter than the March quarter. FirstChoice, the bank's flagship investment platform, gained $170 million more than the March quarter to $872 million at the end of June. This rise in flows follows Marianne Perkovic ...

AIA moves to integrate retail offering

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
AIA Australia has launched Platform Investor Protect - a new service that integrates the insurer's flagship retail product, Priority Protection, onto an investment platform for the first time. AIA said in a statement that clients would benefit by being ...

IFSA members approve name change, new focus

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... would mean more Australians will recognise the importance of the financial services industry. "[This] provides a new platform from which the industry can better explain its value proposition to customers and will allow the Council to highlight the important ...

AIA to list, names new chief

PRESS RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... accomplish our ambitious goals of not just taking a company of AIA's size and scope public but building on this great platform for the long-term to create Asia's pre-eminent, publicly traded insurance company," said Benmosche. This follows Prudential's ...

Coalition's IR commitment locks in Award default funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... announcement on the weekend that the Coalition will adopt the government's Fair Work Act as their industrial relations platform for at least the first term of their government should they win office at the August 21 Federal Election. The subtlety for ...

NAB granted more time on AXA bid

PRESS RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... to address the ACCC concerns for the planned AXA APH purchase by potentially divesting the North Wealth.net investment platform. This isn't the first time NAB has gained more time to work on the proposal. On 1 June, the bank was given another 15 days ...

Tower and IRESS launch Accelerate Connect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... "What makes this different is that advisers do not need to separately log on to TOWER Australia's Accelerated Online platform, before proceeding with the life insurance application. "Advisers simply maintain their TOWER Australia logon and password details ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... point turnaround in equity returns in the year to end March has propelled a 30 per cent bounceback in the size of the platform market. According to Rainmaker's recently released Advantage Report, platform FUA climbed back to $392 billion up from $302 ...

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 ...

Boutique and big brands top SMA

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
Fund managers Dalton Nicol Reid, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Hyperion, Ralton, UBS Global Asset Management (Australia) were all rated as the top SMA model portfolio providers, research shows. Standard & Poor's has named the stand out investment fund manager ...