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Stable funds bad defaults: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
The US Investment Companies Institute (ICI) has called for retirement funds to be invested to achieve growth, and dismissed calls from the US life insurance industry that capital stable funds be allowed as default investment choices in 401(k)s. "Stable ...

Financial Simplicity powers Portfolio Express

Financial Simplicity has launched Portfolio Express, a model portfolio rebalancing tool tailored to the needs of financial planners. "Portfolio Express differs from many portfolio rebalancing solutions in the market in that it allows an adviser to also ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... of a 57.5-point score, and its highest level since April, 2006, when it registered 61.1 per cent. The private-sector Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) national employment report showed non-farm private employment grew by 150,000 in June, well above market ...

AIG and netwealth ride again

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... director of distribution and marketing, said, "The key selection criteria we focused on were premiums, policy flexibility, automatic acceptance levels and technology." In addition to lowering premiums, netwealth will be offering salary continuance to ...

AIG builds major risk upgrade for AON

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... director of superannuation, said, "Along with other improvements announced recently, including discounted premiums, automatic continuation options and long-term income protection, we believe the Aon Master Trust offers some of the best insurance cover ...

Economic round-up: dust off the bear suit

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... Stanley's position is that a full blown recession is unlikey as bond yields would fall during a correction and become an "automatic stabiliser" for the global economy. According to JP Morgan analyst, Thomas Reif, our local market valuations seem to be ...

BT Wrap technology in full throttle

BT Wrap is cranking up its technological capabilities so that financial planners can use its platform faster, cheaper and easier. Jeroen Buwalda, head of BT Wrap product development, said that BT has several initiatives in the pipeline to make BT Wrap ...

Aon renews vows with AIG

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... age 65, expand(ed) total and permanent disablement cover to employees working under 15 hours a week, and improv(ed) automatic acceptance limits," he said. Gaffney said the new benefits would be launched to members and the market next month. "From 1 July ...

ING makes insurance faster for advisers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
ING is helping advisers write OneCare insurance faster by streamlining its desktop quotation software. Advisers will benefit from pre-populated application forms, automatically entering client details through ING's Dynamic Application software, part ...

Attitude determines financial altitude: Plum

Forget financial literacy. Leading superannuation advice specialist Plum found that attitudes to money are more critical than financial education when trying to get the message across. Plum's senior education development consultant, Michelle Brown ...