australian unity

Financial planning

Australian Unity will accelerate its campaign to build its financial planning business in New South Wales after announcing merger plans with Grand United Friendly Society...

Financial planning

Aust Unity merges with Grand United

Australian Unity will accelerate its campaign to build its financial planning business in New South Wales after announcing merger plans with Grand United Friendly Society...

Financial planning

Aust Unity reports record inflows

Australian Unity has surpassed the $2 billion funds under management barrier for the first time in its 164-year old history after reporting record inflows of $438 million...

People & Products

Aust Unity signs-up new investment head

Australian Unity has moved quickly by appointing former Perpetual private clients manager David Bryant as head of its funds management division and filling the role of so...

Financial planning

Australian Unity senior-executive departs

Australian Unity director and head of funds management John Linehan is set to leave the group in mid-September, to be replaced by a yet-to-be-named successor who will be ...

Financial planning

Australian Unity backs financial planning arm expansion

Melbourne-based financial services group Australian Unity is throwing its weight behind expanding its three year old financial planning arm with plans to increase its adv...

Financial planning

Aust Unity plans to grow member base

Australian Unity is to expand its membership base to include investors in its unit trusts and property syndicates....

Financial planning

Aust Unity’s funds break $2 billion barrier

Australian Unity has broken through the $2 billion funds under management (FUM) figure for the first time, on the back of a jump in inflows early this year – up 100 per c...

Financial planning

Perpetual’s Mead takes top job at Aust Unity

Australian Unity has snared former Perpetual executive Rohan Mead as its new group managing director with incumbent Ian Ferres staying in the job until the end of this fi...

Financial planning

Grant departs after Aust Unity restructure

Australian Unity’s head of financial services, Simon Grant, has left the company after a restructure of its senior management team....

Editorial

Aust Unity to grow despite profit drop

Australian Unity is to double the size of its financial planning business and launch a new superannuation administration service by the end of October despite reporting a...

Life/Risk

Australian Unity splits insurance and bonds

Australian Unity has restructured its life insurance operations, including its bond products, and has spun to divisions out into a new company called Australian Unity Inv...

Financial planning

Mortgage winners stick to what they know

Remaining “true to label” and having well established teams and processes are some of the key factors for success for the finalists in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Ma...

Financial planning

Australian Unity picks up competent rating

Australian Unity Funds Management has been awarded an overall rating of ‘competent’ by research house Assirt in the areas of business management and operating capability....

Financial planning

Out of the board room and into the front line

Australian Unity is one of the few mutual groups still in the financial services market and, as John Wilkinson writes, its new managing director plans to make sure it sta...