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Aviva key personnel disbanded after NAB buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... announcements on the insurance business this week. Robbie Bennetts, chief executive officer of Professional Investment Services (PIS), a major dealer group that uses the Navigator platform, declined to comment on the executive team changes but said many ...

Integration key to AXA bid

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... (after making the Aviva acquisition last year) and then Professional Investment Services (NAB has options over a chunk of PIS shares previously owned by Aviva), its share of the platform market would jump by nearly half from 15 to 24 per cent and its ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Rogue hedge funds will lie, cheat and connive to get investor money, and while the regulators lack muscle to stop them, there are ways for pension funds to quickly spot the next Madoff. Professor Stephen Brown, a top academic who presented at a hearing ...

PIS to pay $5.9m to Westpoint investors

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
The Federal Court of Australia has approved the settlement of an ASIC-initiated compensation claim to PIS clients who were advised to invest in failed Westpoint Group - ordering PIS to pay $5.9 million to these clients. The court approved a distribution ...

Premium appoints Queensland specialist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... recent posting was with Abacus Property Group, as well as holding previous positions as a business development manager with PIS and experience as a financial planner with Westpac Group. Last month, the firm appointed former Westpac executive, Pierre ...

PIS in Westpoint compensation deal

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... relation to failed Westpoint investments. The proceeding concerns a claim for compensation relating to financial advice given by PIS to clients to invest in the failed Westpoint Group of companies. The settlement of the proceeding is subject to the approval ...

Timbercorp investors get $50k aid

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... fighting fund and other monetary aid would help up to 80 per cent of Timbercorp investors claw some of their investments back. PIS, which recently poured an additional $50,000 into the Timbercorp Growers Group's fighting fund, said it was realistic about ...

RE model should be reviewed: PIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
PIS is increasingly questioning the Responsible Entity system and said a return to the previous "trustee" model could be a solution to safeguard investors from collapses such as those of Great Southern and Timbercorp. Grahame Evans, managing director ...

PIS is not part of sale: NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
Aviva Australia's more than 20 per cent stake in Professional Investment Services (PIS) was not part of the NAB deal announced yesterday, creating an opening for a new ownership structure at the dealer group. PIS, one of Australia's largest dealer groups ...

PIS awards top risk adviser

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Professional Investment Services (PIS) Gold Coast based insurance adviser, Jason Churchill, has won the dealer group's best risk specialist award for the third time. Churchill has been an authorised representative at PIS since 2002. He heads up the ...