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Financial planning

29 Nov

Court dismisses Rivkin ‘tit-for-tat’ allegations

Rivkin Financial Services (RFS) has had two legal disputes relating to accusations of insider trading activities in its stock dismissed in the Federal Court of New South ...

Financial planning

29 Nov

IOOF back in court over adviser dispute

IOOF has been slammed by a Victorian Supreme Court Judge over its “appalling” retrieval of records in relation to a protracted legal dispute with advisers who alleged the...

Financial planning

29 Nov

New dealer rounds out CBA advice

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia claims to now have a full spectrum of advice offerings with the “soft launch” of its new dealer initiative to go ahead once a licence f...

Financial planning

29 Nov

AXA Discovery finds planners

AXA Australia’s re-run of its Discovery program - a client-list buy back scheme that ran for several weeks in 2003 - has netted 35 new planners and involving some 100,000...

Financial planning

29 Nov

STP: straight to printer or real efficiency?

Even the most technology savvy financial planners are inclined to switch off when the discussion turns to ‘straight through processing’. But that could soon change, write...

Financial planning

29 Nov

Federal poll delays dollar disclosure timeframe

The Federal election has thrown the January 1, 2005 deadline for fund managers and advisers having to disclose all fees and benefits as dollar amounts into disarray with ...

Financial planning

29 Nov

Boutique moves to next phase of expansion

Sydney-based specialist investment firm Next Financial has hired two regional distribution executives to take the group’s Australian equity, debt and derivative offerings...

Financial planning

26 Nov

Challenger consolidates stock

Challenger Financial Services Group shareholders voted at the group’s annual general meeting yesterday to a resolution to consolidate the firm’s shares as part of a one f...

Financial planning

25 Nov

Monitor Money gets AXA backing

AXA-Australia-owned advice firm Monitor Money has received its first acquisition funding from its parent three years after the financial services giant took over ownershi...

Financial planning

25 Nov

Costly anti-laundering reforms back on agenda

The financial services industry is one step nearer to having closure on the looming and potentially crippling cost of having to identify more than nine million investors ...