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MLC names three AXA converts

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
MLC has landed three leading heads from AXA's North platform for its own retirement solutions team, further fueling competition for talent between the two heavyweights. Formerly with AXA, MLC & NAB Wealth has attracted Paul Stratton, Michael Tobin and ...

AMP/AXA promises best of both worlds

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... qualities of the AMP Flexible Lifetime Protection and AXA's Elevate insurance offerings. Importantly, it is AXA's North platform that will be the core wrap product for the new wealth management brand. "The decisions announced today draw on the strengths ...

AMP reports subdued Q1 cashflows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
AMP Financial Services (AFS) registered a significant fall in net cashflows for the first quarter of 2011 although AMP's retail superannuation and pension business fared well. AFS' net cashflows were $42 million for the first quarter of 2011, markedly ...

North opens Bluedoor to bright future

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
Thousands of financial advisers will have access to direct equity trading through the North platform after upgrades to its Bluedoor software engine go live on Monday. The new Bluedoor upgrade was described by its developers yesterday as doing for the ...

AXA releases new North

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
AXA has officially launched its next generation of the North platform, revealing the upgrade to over 2,000 advisers on its roadshows this week. As previously reported by Financial Standard, the North's new generation platform builds on the capital guaranteed ...

AXA Aus preps for next phase of North

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
AXA Australia will soon release the next generation of its successful North platform, gaining support from merger partner AMP. A broad range of licensees currently uses the North platform, launched in 2007, with the platform's funds under management ...

AXA's North man joins NAB

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
Andrew Barnett, the man who led the team behind AXA Asia Pacific's successful North platform and product range, has joined NAB this week to head up the bank's new retirement solutions team. Barnett, formerly head of structured solutions at AXA, has ...

Bidding time for AMP

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... concerns over the potential distribution power of a combined NAB/AXA entity not assuaged by plans to spin of the North platform to IOOF. The ACCC ruling effectively eliminates a number of other players with significant wrap offerings from the equation ...

ACCC opposes NAB/AXA merger

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... Peter Kell, deputy chairman of the ACCC, said the proposed undertaking by the parties - which includes selling the North platform to IOOF Holdings - do not provide enough certainty to appease the commission's competition concerns. The commission also ...

IOOF books $225m net inflows, simplifies ops

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
IOOF Holdings, the listed financial services group that could become the new owner of the AXA North platform subject to ongoing AXA APH merger talks, books a strong set of full-year results and flags the continuing consolidation of its various business ...