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Financial planning

21 January 2004

Financial Partnership hones its focus on planning practices

Financial planning group Financial Partnership has appointed ex-Australian Financial Services’s national business development manager, Chris Smith, as regional manager fo...

Financial planning

20 January 2004

Lonsec beefs up investment team

Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) has moved to restructure its research team by reassigning incumbent managed funds research head Grant Kennaway into the role of general manag...

Financial planning

20 January 2004

IFSA to educate investors on managed funds

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has launched a new investor education initiative on managed funds in the belief that recent upbeat markets will f...

People & Products

20 January 2004

ASIC appoints new head of enforcement

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appointed a new executive director of enforcement, Jan Redfern, to head-up the department responsible for ...

Financial planning

19 January 2004

Assirt hands out glowing report cards

A collection of positive ratings have been bestowed by research house Assirt on fund managers AXA and ABN Amro, with most of their fund sectors and management capabilitie...

Financial planning

14 January 2004

IWL signals healthy revenue

IWL has forecast a 150 per cent increase in operating revenue for the six month period to December 2003 on the back of a market-led turnaround of the group’s new ex-Sanfo...

Financial planning

14 January 2004

AMP well positioned after 2003 storm

AMP Financial Services (AMPFS) - having survived a tumultuous year in 2003 - is well positioned to take advantage of an anticipated turnaround in fortune this year accord...

Financial planning

14 January 2004

IDT distributes Integratext in software

IDT has brokered an agreement with education provider IntegraTec that will see the planning software company provide a reference manual for financial services professiona...

Financial planning

12 January 2004

Navigator reduces fees after system savings

Platform provider Navigator has moved to pass on savings from its core platform product in the market being more stable, by reducing the fees it charges, particularly to ...

Financial planning

11 January 2004

Deakin looks for value after finalising AustChoice takeover

The Deakin Financial Services takeover of AustChoice, made fully effective late last week, may result in job losses as Deakin pursues “synergies” within the newly combine...