Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) and UBS Warburg have picked up a number of the Merrill Lynch private client brokers who found themselves facing redundancy when the operation w...

It has been often stated in recent weeks that this year would be a very big year for the financial services industry in terms of far reaching developments and events....

The news in late December that the Commonwealth will fold the funds management operations of Colonial First State into its own operations signals the end of a slow joinin...

The speculation surrounding a funds management partner for ANZ has been resolved with the group announcing that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with ING to fo...

The liquidators of Harts Australia have called for further investigations into the group following news it may have continued trading well after the group was deemed inso...

Morningstar has put the internal turmoil over the dismissal of its chief executive behind it and hit back strongly at a report which questioned the value of the research ...

Morningstar has today hit back at a report by asset consulting group Frank Russell which questioned the value of the research house’s ratings model for managed funds....

AM Corporation has won the tender to manage the Optus employee superannuation fund beating out seven other contenders to manage the 9000 member fund....

ANZ has increased its share of online share trading company, E*Trade to almost 31 per cent....

<caps>F</caps>rank Russell Company will make larger moves into the retail end of the market by expanding on its relationship with distribution agents, according to Frank ...

ANZ Banking Group plans to increase the number of financial planners from 200 to 500 by 2003, a decision that was made following its plan to expand its funds management b...

Traders on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) appear to be apprehensive about the re-opening of the New York Stock Exchange in less than 12 hours, and have dumped more t...

AMP Financial Services has appointed Victor Sumsky to the position of dealer group services manager in its advice and services division....

Combined retail managed funds in Australia totaled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars ($257.3 billion) as of March 31, which was an increase of 12 per cent over th...