AXA

Financial planning

Summit plans growth through acquisitions

The AXA Group has embarked on a major makeover of its flagship master trust, Summit, in an effort to entrench the investment platform as one of the largest master trusts ...

Financial planning

AXA investment earnings fall

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings released its year end results today, projecting a strong outlook for future growth, despite a drop in investment earnings....

Financial planning

Groups increasingly stand alone on name

There is a growing trend for dealer groups to be branded distinctively separate from their owners. FIONA MOORE reports on the benefits of the strategy and its history....

Financial planning

AXA reaches Summit with $3 billion

AXA’s Summit master trust has broken the $3 billion funds under management barrier, after growing by one billion dollars in just 12 months....

Funds management

O’Brien takes on funds management at AXA

AXA retail funds and superannuation marketing national manager Mick O’Brien has become the group’s new chief investment officer (CIO) after AXA decided to combine the rol...

Funds management

SRI and hedge funds get cool reception

Last year hedge funds and ethical funds were regarded as A-list investments....

Financial planning

Funds market grows in face of turmoil

Australia’s retail managed funds market has overcome the market turmoil and investor insecurity that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US to record posit...

Financial planning

Watchdog to bite industry’s adverts

Fund managers and other providers of financial services may be forced to review all the advertising of their products after the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

Funds management

ANZ and ING strike funds management deal

The speculation surrounding a funds management partner for ANZ has been resolved with the group announcing that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with ING to fo...

Financial planning

Past performance haunts AXA

The AXA Asia Pacific Group has been forced to terminate or modify a series of print and television advertisements after the Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

Editorial

Markets hurt AXA profits

The AXA Asia Pacific Holdings group’s net profit in the 12 months to the end of September this year has fallen to $320 million, 14 per cent below the level of the year be...

Funds management

AXA joins hedge fund scene

AXA Australia has become the latest fund manager to propel itself into the ever burgeoning multi-manager hedge fund scene with the launch of a global fund-of-hedge fund t...

Financial planning

Commonwealth offers $1m prize for advisers

Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand subsidiary, Sovereign, is offering to make one adviser a millionaire next year...

Financial planning

Harts saga ends in New Zealand with sale

Harts’ financial planning ambitions in New Zealand have been ended with the announcement that its business, which has already been put into the hands of a receiver has be...

Financial planning

Not another mouse mat!

Let’s be perfectly honest here. This month is want to talk simply about largesse, palm greasing, freebies and other things that are likely to get a business development m...