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AMP roadmap to growth

... planning business. "In the short term, the focus here is very much on growing planner numbers and improving planner productivity." "The investment we're making in this area is considerable, and we've started to see the fruits of this in driving up planner ...

FSP and Oasis sign admin deal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... service their clients. "Oasis brings to the table a function-rich front-end system that will significantly improve the productivity of most advisers," he said. "It will enable for example, advisers to bulk trade, re-weight to preferred investment model ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... broadband. In education. In skills, TAFE colleges and universities. In health and hospitals. And to build national productivity," said the Treasurer in his Budget speech. The government will deposit $20 billion into the Building Australia Fund, $11 billion ...

QIC adds two to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... experience in advising financial institutions in financial product development and delivery, strategic cost reduction and productivity and process improvement. Gearing has extensive experience in corporate finance, funds management and product marketing ...

FinLit boosts productivity while educating kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... also help make students more productive when they enter the workforce and help us to boost our stagnant economic productivity, said Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was one of few wealth management industry representatives invited to the recent 2020 Summit.

2020 Summit push for life long accounts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... the concept expands to cover education accounts and health accounts. Significantly, the LLAs were contained in the productivity theme centering on "education, skills, training, science and innovation". Another Summit initiative wealth managers should ...

Getting ethics back on track

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... simple three-step acid test can go a long way towards building one-on-one client relationships and boost business productivity. Rogers is a 33-year MDRT member and has served twice as president of the Annapolis Association of Insurance and Financial ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... be missing one key detail - students don't like technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian Mathematics Teachers Association (AAMT) in conjunction with the University of New ...

New appointments at AXA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... the newly created position of national manager of AXA-owned Jigsaw. He will be responsible for increasing AXA sales productivity from Jigsaw's relationships and supporting the growth of the firm's network. Toal has been with AXA for eight years and was ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
April 1st came early this year with the Reserve Bank, the Productivity Commission and the National Trust of NSW making some of their most incredible public statements ever. High interest rates and bank rates jumping above the Reserve's official benchmark ...