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AXA extends cover for 457 visas

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
AXA upgrades its individual life insurance suite to include cover for 457 visa holders and separately, better cover for prostate cancer. As part of the firm's annual life insurance upgrade, 457 visa holders can now obtain a two-year income protection ...

AXA planner profitability model delivers

A business planning model provided by AXA across its dealer group just under a year ago proved to be a winning formula helping planners who took it up to deliver six times more than those who opted out of the service. In August last year, AXA launched ...

AXA term deposit up by 25 pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
AXA Australia saw a 25 per cent increase in term deposit investments after adding ANZ and Westpac Bank onto its Summit investment menu on 26 May this year. Investors can choose from 30, 90 or 130 day options and yearly options of one and two years with ...

Planner buying spree tops $17bn

... six months, resulting in a major reshuffle of the country's top 10 financial planning groups. The largest deal to date was AXA's $150 million purchase of Genesys, which boasts $12 billion in FUA and 300-plus planners. This was followed by ING Australia's ...

Vanguard appoints CFO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... Investments Australia has appointed Jean-Yves Didier to chief financial officer. Prior to this appointment, Didier worked at AXA Asia Pacific in its Melbourne office and held roles across regional reporting, planning, corporate finance and treasury and ...

Agribusiness needs careful planning

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... olives and almonds, timber and teak to cash in on the tax benefits, experts warn you need to invest with care. According to AXA head of strategy Robert Thomas, agribusiness may look like a portal of tax cost-slashing opportunities with its fully tax ...

Rainmaker Marketing Awards celebrate best of the best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... year in the consumer division, while Credit Agricole Asset Management won best advertising campaign in the trade division. AXA Australia's North won superannuation product of the year while Aviva Australia's Riskfirst was awarded the best product innovation ...

Collins challenges planner model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... advice to different age groups to ensure their practices attracted clients. "We have a major project that's across all the AXA advice practices to look at what we do need to do and how we can implement it. That's how seriously we're taking it," said ...

AXA buys Challenger's Genesys

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
AXA's influence in Australia's financial advice industry is set to escalate with today's $150 million purchase of Challenger's financial planning business Genesys Wealth Advisers and proprietary platform Synergy. The deal, which is expected to be finalised ...

AXA halves adviser PI expense

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
AXA Australia has signed a new professional indemnity (PI) deal that will cost its licensed advisers 50 per cent less than the average market rate. The deal comprises of a PI insurance premium of $195, in addition to 0.33 per cent of an adviser's income. ...