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Financial planning

09 Nov

Managers launch IPO offers

MacarthurCook Funds Management and WH Souls Pattinson and Company will commence accepting offers from investors this week and next ahead of scheduled public listings of f...

Financial planning

09 Nov

AFA president steps down

The Association of Financial Advisers has a new president with Robin Yates this morning relinquishing the key role to former vice president Michael Murphy at the associat...

Financial planning

08 Nov

Westpac joins record breaking banks

Westpac Bank has followed its banking cousins ANZ and St George with its own record profit announcement today, leaving NAB as the likely party pooper later in the week wh...

Financial planning

05 Nov

RetireInvest back in the news

RetireInvest has rounded off this week’s flurry of activity surrounding its business with the announcement of a second exclusive advice deal, this time with the Commercia...

Financial planning

05 Nov

Investor Group courts institutional backers

Investor Group has placed five million new shares with institutional investors and raised almost $20 million to fund its on-going acquisition strategy and reduce the firm...

Financial planning

03 Nov

Challenger sells down property portfolio

Challenger Financial Services Group will increase the diversification of assets backing its annuities business after selling five offshore properties, in a move that redu...

Financial planning

01 Nov

RetireInvest advisers to launch boutique

Eight Victoria-based RetireInvest franchises have split from the ING-owned advice firm to launch a new independent dealer group with 20 authorised representatives and mor...

Financial planning

28 Oct

Bad apples feel the full force of law

Two operators of a Brisbane-based investment scheme have been sentenced to two of the biggest custodial sentences for defrauding investors in recent times after the pair ...

Financial planning

27 Oct

Investors warned to research super funds

Investors have been urged not to compare super fund performances based on style names after an industry survey found only a tenuous link between the style names funds mar...

Financial planning

25 Oct

BT sharpens multi-manager focus

BT Financial Group has followed up plans to provide investors, through the Westpac adviser channel, with a more extensive multi-manager product range by creating and fill...