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AXA boosts profits, broadens Asian market reach

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
AXA chairman Rick Allert announced a 25 per cent jump in net profits, increases in capital and investment earnings and the acquisition of Winterthur Hong Kong at AXA's AGM last week. Net profit was up from $542.4 million in 2005 to $677.8 million in ...

Trauma insurance to expand

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... Fabris, strategic marketing manager life risk at Zurich Australia. Michael Rogers, general manager of financial protection at AXA Australia, said, "People living longer and earning more money has pushed up sum insureds and entry ages are getting older ...

Industry funds and master trusts share top honours

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... trust average. ING, AMP and Colonial continued to dominate the Australian equities sector one year returns table while Mercer, AXA, Accountants Super and BT dominated in international equities. Importantly, while the average return for the Australian ...

AXA wins Life Insurer of the Year

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
AXA Australia has taken out the Platinum Award for Life Insurance Company of the Year at the inaugural Association of Financial Advisors (AFA) and Plan For Life Life Insurance Company of the Year Product and Service Quality Awards 2006. The award capped ...

AXA appoints GM financial protection

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
AXA Australia has announced a general manager of financial protection to grow the financial protection business to a market leading position on the back of a new strategy. Michael Rogers has been with AXA since 1999, including four years as AXA Australia's ...

Hybrid property funds up 400 per cent

... securities, offering "diversification" and the best of both worlds, said Lawrence. The group's review looked at 13 funds including AXA, Australian Unity, BlackRock and Challenger. MIA also looked at what they called 'new generation' hybrid funds from ...

Global economy usurps local risks

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
The global economy is more autonomous than at any time in our history, according to AXA's chief investment officer, Mark Dutton, and therefore risks cannot be looked at as sector-specific or in isolation. Dutton said that whereas historically the world ...

HESTA appoints three intl long-short managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
HESTA Super Fund has appointed Acadian Asset Management, AXA Rosenberg and AQR as global long-short managers with a total allocation of just under $300 million. The mandates represent one-tenth of their international equities strategic asset allocation ...

New research analyst for AllianceBernstein

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... portfolio and the Australian Real Estate portfolios. These portfolios underlie the Australian LPT strategy that flows into AXA's Wholesale Australian Diversified Property Securities Fund and the listed component of AXA's Wholesale Australian Property ...

AXA wins Morningstar's Fund Manager of the Year

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
AXA/AllianceBernstein has taken out Morningstar's 2006 Fund Manager of the Year, holding off the other two finalists AMP Capital Investors and Barclays Global Investors to take home the top honours. "On the growth side, the Alliance domestic equities ...