Freya Purnell takes a look at the platform products most favoured by dealer groups in 2004....

Dealers groups are now incorporating research from a range of providers. Lucia Appleby reports....

AXA Australia has raised the level of competition in the rapidly growing low-cost platform arena with the formal unveiling of its anticipated new baby wrap today - Genera...

Ipac Securities remains on the acquisition trail after yesterday reaffirming its continuing efforts to become a national business and could announce a series of developme...

For the first time since Money Management began publishing its Top 50 Distributors list, the big players have loosened their stronghold on Australia’s financial advice di...

National Australia Bank (NAB) has no plans to outsource its Australian commercial insurance operations despite last week’s deal with AXA in the UK to take over the provis...

In only its second year, the Money Management/Tribeca Communications Business Development Manager (BDM) of the Year Award has attracted enormous interest from the industr...

AXA has disbanded the position of chief investment officer in light of the investment management roles performed by its partners Alliance Capital Management and Bernstein...

Institutionally-owned financial planning groups still dominate the list of fastest growing dealer groups, taking eight out of the top 10 places on the list. But while the...

AXA Asia Pacific’s recent acceptance of some harsh home truths now appear to be bearing fruit with the group announcing an almost doubling to $537 million of its after ta...

AXA Australia has unveiled a new set of performance guiding indicators - the AXA 6 - after completing its K5 transformation program in December 2003....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a former Saxby Bridge Financial Planning adviser from acting in the industry after it f...

AXA-owned ipac has launched a new dealer group – Monere Financial Planning – into the adviser market with the aim of targeting external advisers wanting to focus on provi...

AXA incumbent group chief executive officer Les Owen is likely to now focus on the group’s regional interests following chief financial officer Andy Penn being appointed ...