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Financial planning

02 Oct

The more they change, the more things stay the same

Four years is a long time in the rapidly changing retail financial services business. But while developments have come thick and fast in my four years at Money Management...

Financial planning

02 Oct

Sun rises on Singapore invasion

<caps>Major</caps> Singaporean corporates may be eyeing Australia’s telecommunications, airlines and financial services industries, but a band of smaller Australian finan...

Financial planning

02 Oct

New broom at Sovereign

The two people who foundered Sovereign Assurance in 1981, Ian Hendry and Chris Coon, have both announced their retirements from the company. Both men plan to leave at the...

Financial planning

28 Aug

Rothschild, ING join the ethical fray

Rothschild and ING have become the latest major name fund managers to join the long line of managers embracing ethical investments....

Financial planning

27 Aug

Count’s new dealer group to launch in November

Count is to launch its second dealer group, Compound Investments, at this year’s Financial Planning Association conference in Brisbane in November....

Financial planning

23 Aug

Prospectus printer in Australian hands

The biggest printer of prospectuses for fund managers, Blue Star, is now in Australian hands, following a management buy-out by its Australian and New Zealand executive t...

Financial planning

20 Aug

Just who the hell is Dimensional Fund Advisors

When the Dimensional Value fund hit the top rung of the performance ladder for the year to May 31, the financial services industry let out a collective cry of surprise. J...

Financial planning

17 Aug

Wyld answers his critics

High profile industry figure Kevin Wyld has answered the knockers of the Beacon master trust he developed, by announcing the administration platform had reached $100 mill...

Financial planning

15 Aug

Performance comes at a cost for CMTs

JB Were’s low cost structure has pushed its cash management trust (CMT) to the top of the performance tables in the CMT market....

Financial planning

15 Aug

National emerges as distribution leader

The National Australia Bank has regained the mantle as the top managed fund distributor in the retail market, dominating inflows into managed funds in the last three mont...