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GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... our seemingly indestructible attitude is now gone," said Adrian Emery, general manager of sales and marketing at AXA Australia. Economic conditions has impacted Australians' perception on life insurance, with the number of people that felt they were ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

... winners and finalists did. Best Innovation of the Year Winner Launch of the AXA North Protected Investment Guarantee - AXA Australia Finalists Charity Nomination - Individuum Super netwealth Super Wrap Insurance - netwealth Insurance Rollover - Aon Consulting ...

The liquidity trade-off

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... match." It's a similar story on the retail product manufacturing side, said Mark Dutton, chief investment officer at AXA Australia and New Zealand. He said financial planners and product providers must forego one "key objective" to ensure other aspects ...

More than just insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... advice on investments but also around insurance and claims. David Dow, manager learning design and development of AXA Australia, said properly handling grief and the emotional states of clients faced with a death is a crucial skill that has to be learned ...

Industry backs Lifewise campaign

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... behind the campaign are AIG Life, Macquarie, Suncorp, Zurich, TOWER Australia, Aviva Australia, Mercer, MetLife and AXA Australia to name a few. Chris Pearce, shadow minister for financial services and superannuation and corporate law, officially opened ...

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 ...