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Financial planning

20 January 2002

Count adds up cost of expansion

One of the largest independently owned dealer groups in Australia, Count Financial, has flagged a 25 per cent drop in its operating profit for the first half of this fina...

Financial planning

16 January 2002

A word from the gurus

If you needed even more proof that economics was far from an exact science then there is little need to look beyond the last twelve months....

Financial planning

16 January 2002

Watchdog to bite industry’s adverts

Fund managers and other providers of financial services may be forced to review all the advertising of their products after the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

Financial planning

16 January 2002

Absolute Capital poised for retail push

Boutique hedge fund manager Absolute Capital has entered into discussions with a series of financial planning dealer group in an attempt to forge distribution channels ah...

Financial planning

16 January 2002

Minister hints at reform

Is this the new minister for financial services? Not quite, but senator Helen Coonan, appointed minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer after the Prime Minister scra...

Financial planning

16 January 2002

Tower rises to distribution challenge

Financial services group Tower Trust is preparing to open three new offices and more than double its business development team in a bullish move designed to boost its nat...

Funds management

16 January 2002

US equities boost investor confidence

Investors in the US are set to usher in the new year with a much needed boost from equity markets in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to the latest stock index repor...

Financial planning

14 January 2002

AMP restructures adviser remuneration

Australia’s largest financial planning group, AMP Financial Planning, has announced a three year plan to radically overhaul its remuneration policy in what is being seen ...

Funds management

13 January 2002

LPTs win 2001, but equities bite back

Listed property trusts (LPT) have finished 2001 as the best performing asset class for Australia investors, rewarding those who flocked to defensive sectors both before a...

Financial planning

6 December 2001

Rothschild outsources to trio of managers

Rothschild Australia Asset Management is set to enter into three new strategic alliances that will see it outsource its global fixed interest, global listed property and ...