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Coin software will now help support three of Australia’s four banking pillars, with ANZ yesterday announcing it had signed a contract with the Macquarie Bank-owned adviso...

Editorial

Funds management and financial planning giant ING Australia has increased its annual profit by 15 per cent, largely as a result of growing funds under management and life...

Financial planning

The regulator’s position on adviser remuneration has been questioned by the Federal opposition, who have implied that the watchdog did not have an adequate understanding ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is cracking down on conflicts of interest and the use of commissions to improve the profile of the industry, and increasingly con...

Financial planning

ANZ and Victoria University have joined forces to provide financial literacy programs for residents in Melbourne’s western suburbs....

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning is moving universally onto a fee-for-service remuneration model for its advisers, becoming the first major Australian dealer group to do so officia...

Life/Risk

ING has repackaged its entire life insurance range into a single product, introduced two new types of cover and will allow client to access family discounts, as part of a...

Financial planning

ING plans to reduce its shortage of young advisers with a development program starting next April in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, which it hopes will attract 20 new fi...

Editorial

Australia’s five largest banks increased their wealth management income by 19.2 per cent and their funds under management by 11.3 per cent in the first half of 2004-05, a...

Financial planning

There has only been a slight increase in the overall number of financial planners in the past 12 months, and most growth now appears to be coming from the self-employed s...

Financial planning

Imagine what would happen if the government allowed major pharmaceutical companies to set up general practitioner practices and pay GPs trail commissions on they drugs th...

Financial planning

It’s official. After three years living together, ING and ANZ have signed the papers and will this year get hitched for real through their joint venture company, ING Aust...

Financial planning

Two of Australia’s best-known retail financial services brands have spread their wings overseas today....

Financial planning

ING Australia, the joint venture between ING group and ANZ, has booked a net profit after tax of $327 million for calendar 2004, up 52 per cent on 2003’s result which was...

Financial planning

Balanced funds that were overweight in Australian shares performed best last month, as the ‘January effect’ lifted the local bourse but passed over the US and Japanese ex...

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