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Financial planning

28 April 2004

FICS restructures dispute resolution procedures

The Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) is to implement a formal conciliation procedure for dispute resolution between its members and consumers following a succ...

Financial planning

4 March 2004

New chief executive at Treasury Group

Treasury Group has announced a management reshuffle that will see the group put a greater focus on managing and growing its existing boutique investment managers rather t...

Financial planning

2 March 2004

Tribeca concludes branding integration

Financial services education provider Tribeca has completed its integration of six business units acquired over the past three years with the last of those groups today a...

Financial planning

1 March 2004

FPA members primed for FSR

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has declared its membership is geared for Financial Services Reform (FSR), with 97 per cent of its principal members having recei...

Financial planning

26 February 2004

Fin Wiz snares Barrett from Fiducian

Fiducian Portfolio Services has lost its head of wealth management, Paul Barrett, who has moved on to join Commonwealth Bank-owned dealer group Financial Wisdom....

Financial planning

26 February 2004

Lonsec backs boutique small cap managers

Boutique manager Eley Griffiths Group, headed by former ING portfolio managers Brian Eley and Ben Griffiths has topped a review of Australian small cap products by resear...

Financial planning

25 February 2004

Super assets to double in 10 years

Actuarial group Rice Walker has predicted Australian superannuation assets will more than double in the next ten years, though it suggests this may not be enough for pres...

Financial planning

23 February 2004

MLC kicks off new enterprise division

MLC Corporate Solutions has carved out a new Small Medium Enterprise (SME) division and shuffled its internal management roles in a bid to align the group’s structure mor...

Financial planning

22 February 2004

AMP boosts results forecast

AMP, in a rare bout of good news, has revised its profit expectations upward for the calendar year ending 2003 following an improved performance across its business units...

Financial planning

19 February 2004

Lifetime ASIC ban for former AMP agent

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a former AMP Superannuation agent imprisoned for cheating and defrauding two of his for...