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Editorial

Rivkin Financial Services has posted an increase in net profit of 193 per cent for the year ending June 30, 2004 despite suffering a 69 per cent slump in revenue from the...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange has been given a clean bill of health by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in its latest annual assessment of the ...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has indicated it will release a key paper on infrastructure investment next month after superannuation funds were called on to bolster...

Financial planning

The peak industry body representing hedge funds in Australia, the Alternative Investment Management Association has appointed a new chairman with Vertex Capital Manageme...

Financial planning

AXA Asia Pacific has commissioned consultancy group Grant Samuel to conduct an independent valuation of its operations so that shareholders have a yardstick to compare it...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has reached an accord with its counterpart in Japan - the Financial Services Agency - to raise the level of co-operat...

Editorial

Suncorp Metway rounded off the 2003-04 financial year on a high today by reporting a record 61 per cent increase in net profit across all three of its main business areas...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has added four new non-executive directors to its board only days after signing up two new executive directors....

People & Products

Private investment firm Investec Bank has snared Ernst & Young boss Brian Schwartz as its new chief executive officer, replacing Geoff Levy who becomes the chair-elect of...

Financial planning

With independence comes choice – and planners at Matrix Planning Solutions are enjoying both. Kate Kachor looks at their decision to go solo....

Financial planning

Boutique investment group Select Asset Management has stepped up its push into the absolute return and alternative investment space, bringing former Berkley Group head of...

Financial planning

A robust market with an appetite for boutiques has aided listed financial services firm Treasury Group to double funds under management for the year ending June 30, and i...

Financial planning

AMP director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich will stand down as Financial Planning Association chairman, making way for chair-elect Kathryn Greiner - the first...

Financial planning

Perth-based dealer firm Western Pacific Financial Group has unveiled an ambitious organisational expansion that involves the formation of a holding company to sit above a...

Financial planning

Superannuation fund trustees need to make clear to members the reasons for their decisions in granting or disallowing benefits, according to the Superannuation Complaints...

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