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Financial planning

6 April 2004

ABN Amro concludes Absolute deal

ABN Amro yesterday completed taking a 50 per cent stake in alternative investment firm Absolute Capital four months after the two groups entered into exclusive talks to f...

Financial planning

6 April 2004

Investor Group expansion rolls on

Investor Group is continuing its acquisitive expansion push after agreeing in principle to buy specialist financial planning firm Investor Care in a move that adds to the...

Financial planning

5 April 2004

Challenger buys Associated Planners for $100m

Challenger Financial Services Group (CFSG) today announced its takeover of dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) for $100 million in a deal that will...

Financial planning

4 April 2004

Fee disclosure talks collapse

Attempts by the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) to agree on a single fee measure for sup...

Financial planning

4 April 2004

Lonsdale creates new executive roles

Lonsdale Financial (Lonsdale) has appointed its first chief executive and operating officers with general manager Mario Modica set to head-up the Melbourne-based group an...

Financial planning

1 April 2004

Merrill Lynch boosts numbers as markets grow

Merrill Lynch Australia is steadily bolstering its ranks with the appointment of 20 new staff across its various businesses in light of improving equity markets and a mor...

Financial planning

31 March 2004

Morningstar signs up Skandia to new portfolio tool

Skandia has become the first customer in Australia to sign-up to Morningstar’s Portfolio X-Ray tool - an instrument that details fund aggregate portfolio asset allocation...

Financial planning

30 March 2004

Investors LIC their IPO wounds

Listed investment companies (LICs) dominated capital raising activity on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in the March 2004 quarter, with five LICs raising a total of ...

Financial planning

30 March 2004

Assirt rates MacarthurCook but issues warning

Boutique property fund manager MacarthurCook Investment Managers has been given an encouraging assessment by Assirt, but the research house raises concerns over the risk...

Financial planning

29 March 2004

Pengana LIC equity stake offer to investors

Pengana Capital has revealed it will grant investors in its recently flagged new listed investment company - Pengana Managers - equity in the underlying investment manage...