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Excess choice boosts advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... befuddled, in turn driving the need for more good advisers. Barry Wyatt, national manager business development, AXA Australia, and speaker at the Securitor conference in Darwin, said giving too much choice to investors can drive them to do nothing about ...

AXA recruits 13 overseas planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
AXA Australia is taking its financial planning recruitment drive overseas, adding 13 planners from South Africa and the UK to the dealer group. Paul Williams, national manager for AXA Financial Planning and Charter Financial Planning, said the firm ...

Ipac appoints chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
AXA Australia Asia Pacific subsidiary, ipac, has appointed Neil Swindells as chief executive. Swindells' appointment follows the firm's chief executive and AXA head of advice, Peeyush Gupta stepping down next month. Swindells was previously an AXA senior ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... default super fund options almost doubled to 36 per cent. Two of the best default workplace super option included the AXA Australia Simple Super - Guaranteed Plus which returned just over four per cent and Military Super - Growth option which lost 6.7 ...

North awarded 'very strong' S&P rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
AXA Australia's highly popular structured product, North, received a 'very strong' rating from Standard & Poor's. Launched in December 2007, AXA North provides 50 different investment options with the guarantee. The product was later enhanced to include ...

GFC wipes $80b FUM

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... past year due to the investment markets 'meltdown'," said Plan for Life. The best results were recorded by Mercer, AXA Australia, AMP and ING Australia. Mercer grabbed the top performer spot with 5.3 per cent in losses, followed by AXA (10.6 per cent) ...

AXA ramps up group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
AXA Australia group insurance clients are set to benefit from a raft of enhancements across definitions, cover limits and technological capabilities. As a result of the improvements, AXA's maternity and paternity leave cover was improved to provide ...

Baby boomers hold retirement plans

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... income or guarantee an income during the member's lifetime. The results of the survey are broadly similar to an AXA Australia survey that found more than 50 per cent of Australians are prepared to pay a small fee to protect their superannuation and remain ...

AXA enhances North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... Financial planners can help their clients protect their investment and contributions for the next five years after AXA Australia enhanced its North product. The new Protected Investment Guarantee option is a five to seven year, complete return of capital ...

Suncorp ripe for the picking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... determined the carry a substantial surplus capital and noted it is in high level, exploratory discussions with Suncorp. AXA Australia and ING Australia could not be reached for comment.