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Financial planning

21 Mar

CPAs hit industry for $12.5 million to launch dealer group

One of Australia’s peak accountancy bodies, CPA Australia, has asked groups tendering to provide back-up services to its newly proposed dealer group to help finance its v...

Financial planning

21 Mar

Colonial poaches Bissaker from BT

In one of this year’s biggest recruiting coups, Colonial First State has signed up one of BT Funds Management (BTFM) highest profile senior executives, Brian Bissaker, to...

Financial planning

21 Mar

Departure spells the end of an era at Colonial

The latest news from within the Commonwealth Bank group is just the closing moves in one of the biggest industry mergers in recent years. GEORGE LIONDIS looks at where it...

Financial planning

21 Mar

Ventura on the menu

Ventura Investment Management, the new funds management arm of dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), has been given its first taste of credibility with new...

Financial planning

21 Mar

ING targets Russell in multi-sector

ING has broadened the distribution of its Optimix funds in what is sure to be seen as a challenge to the relationship between ING’s soon-to-be funds management partner, t...

Financial planning

20 Mar

IOOF buys into Perth dealer group

The IOOF Group has taken a strategic stake in Perth based dealer group Ascare Financial Services as part of its latest push to extend its planning network Australia-wide....

Financial planning

19 Mar

Tyndall rewarded with fund upgrade

Tyndall Investment management has been rewarded for adhering to its deep value style, with research house Assirt today upgrading the manager’s Australian share products f...

People & Products

18 Mar

Bissaker leaves BT for Colonial

In one of this year's biggest recruiting coup's, Colonial First State has signed up one of BT Funds Management's (BTFM) highest profile senior executives, Brian Bissaker,...

Financial planning

18 Mar

Sanford signs up ING’s Optimix

Online financial services group, Sanford, has signed an agreement to provide its online share trading product, Virtual Broker, to Optimix Investment Management, a special...

Financial planning

15 Mar

St George launches margin lending site

St George margin lending has developed a security driven Web site to help make financial planners margin lending experts and to develop their businesses....