AMP FINANCIAL SERVICES
Financial planning
AMP Financial Planning appears to have paid a price for the enforceable undertaking it entered into with ASIC in July, with a reduction in net cashflows over the period....
Financial planning
Corporate superannuation has emerged as a stand-out performer for AMP in its half-year results with the big financial services house announcing a 220 per cent increase in...
Financial planning
In the next step in the transformation of its financial planning business, AMP Financial Services has split its back office operations and services from its financial pla...
Financial planning
ING has expanded its product team to fast track the development of planned new products based principally around its OneAnswer master trust offering....
Editorial
The 2005 full year results for AMP have shown a 24 per cent increase in underlying contributions, the organisation’s main profitability measure which removes investment m...
Financial planning
Australian couples will now be able to split their superannuation contributions after January 1, 2006, with legislation ratifying the move passed by the Senate....
Superannuation
The latest Income and Wealth Report on labour force statistics produced by AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling has shown premature retirement fo...
Financial planning
A recent Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) industry forum heard compelling evidence as to why product rationalisation is an issue that will increasingl...
Financial planning
Increasing inflows through financial planners will play a vital role as AMP attempts to double in size over the next five years, chief executive Andrew Mohl said today....
Financial planning
Older Australians and those more educated about super choice are more likely to stay in their existing fund when the new regime is introduced, while the less informed are...
Financial planning
The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...
Editorial
Insurance and wealth management giant AMP today dished out a $750 million booty to long-suffering shareholders, having posted a consolidated bottom line profit of close t...
Financial planning
In any situation, humans have a natural tendency to take sides and look for someone, or something, to blame when we hear some alarming or bad news....
Financial planning
State Governments have been called on to extend the scope of ‘choice of fund’ to cover all employees and not just those covered under Federal Awards, with one of Australi...
Financial planning
The average Australian household now spends 2.3 per cent more each week than it receives in income, according to the latest AMP/Natsem Income and Wealth Report....
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