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North awarded 'very strong' S&P rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
AXA Australia's highly popular structured product, North, received a 'very strong' rating from Standard & Poor's. Launched in December 2007, AXA North provides 50 different investment options with the guarantee. The product was later enhanced to include ...

Enhanced Investment Technologies wins award

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... Management Awards (SAIMA), sponsored by the UK-based publication Professional Pensions. The US manager managed to beat finalists AXA Rosenberg, Barclays Global Investors, Invesco, Nicholas Applegate Capital Management and State Street Global Advisors ...

GFC wipes $80b FUM

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... over the past year due to the investment markets 'meltdown'," said Plan for Life. The best results were recorded by Mercer, AXA Australia, AMP and ING Australia. Mercer grabbed the top performer spot with 5.3 per cent in losses, followed by AXA (10.6 ...

AXA ramps up group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
AXA Australia group insurance clients are set to benefit from a raft of enhancements across definitions, cover limits and technological capabilities. As a result of the improvements, AXA's maternity and paternity leave cover was improved to provide ...

Value of advice winners unveilled

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Planners from AXA Financial Planning and NAB Financial Planning were among the winners at this year's FPA Value of Advice awards. Dacian Moses from Waterfall Way Associates has won the Value of Advice award for post-retirement planning and management. ...

Baby boomers hold retirement plans

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... retirement income or guarantee an income during the member's lifetime. The results of the survey are broadly similar to an AXA Australia survey that found more than 50 per cent of Australians are prepared to pay a small fee to protect their superannuation ...

DST Systems buys Bluedoor

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... appointed the software developer to improve its administration capability in August. Bluedoor's technology is also used across the AXA North product suite. Martin Spedding, Bluedoor executive director, said DST Systems' support provides the firm with ...

Good news at last for AIG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... scored the 'runner-up' award in the CoreData Life Company of the Year 2008, just behind Zurich but beating fellow finalists AXA and Asteron. During the upgrade launch, AIG Life Australia managing director, Stuart Harrison sought to ease financial advisors' ...

AXA enhances North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial planners can help their clients protect their investment and contributions for the next five years after AXA Australia enhanced its North product. The new Protected Investment Guarantee option is a five to seven year, complete return of capital ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... week ago, have witnessed a spike in withdrawals. To date four of the country's top ten mortgage fund providers - Perpetual, AXA, Challenger and AUI - have all either suspended applications or redemptions for their mortgage or income funds, freezing more ...