Axa Wealth International is offering investors a break on their offshore bond charges if they choose their bond investments from the Axa-owned Architas multi-asset funds range, on a guided architecture basis.
John R Dacey, a member of Axa Group’s executive committee and vice-chairman for Asia Pacific, is to leave the company at the end of August.
In the recent UK Budget, there was significant emphasis on the offshore tax environment. Axa Wealth Management’s Richard Leeson and Simon Martin say three significant changes in the life insurance sector help explain what it could mean to investors.
Axa Investment Managers has launched a global bond fund for Nick Hayes.
Axa Wealth International is pulling the wraps off a range of so-called QR (Quick Response) Code images to make access to its range of product support documents easier.
Axa will acquire HSBCs property and casualty businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico, the firm announced today. The French insurance giant has also signed an exclusive ten-year P&C bancassurance deal with HSBC in these countries, as well as in India, Indonesia and China.
Axa has announced that it plans to close its Ipac financial planning businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore in the first half of 2012, as it seeks to shift its focus in Asia back to insurance.
Axa Group is looking to sell those parts of its Hong Kong-based Ipac advisory company that it did not dispose of last year, as it seeks to bring to an end a nine-year affiliation with the self-described holistic lifestyle financial planner, market sources say.
Axa Investment Managers is to change the partner it uses for a joint venture in Asia and team up with Bank of India for its asset management business in the region.
Axa Investment Managers has appointed Benjamin Rumary as investment sales manager for the Channel Islands, Ireland and the South West of the UK.
Mike Foy, managing director of Axa Wealth International, explains how the company is preparing for such upcoming challenges as the Retail Distribution Review, the US FATCA legislation and the EU Savings Directive.
Axa Investment Managers has launched a high conviction global income fund targeting between 1.5 and 2.5 times the yield of the MSCI AC World index.
