Asset consultants Intech Financial Services have announced the appointment of former Mercer Asia Pacific chairman and chief executive Bruce Cook as a director....
Nine months into a two-year recovery strategy, Tower Limited is back in the black having posted a $4.87 million profit for the six months ended September, 2003....
Rivkin Financial Services, established by the embattled Rene Rivkin, is set to establish a funds management arm after having its application approved in principle by the ...
Principal Real Estate Investors (Australia) has replaced Lend Lease as the responsible entity of the soon to be Morgan Stanley owned Lend Lease US Office Trust (LUO) foll...
Moves by a number of Winchcombe Carson planners to get IOOF managing director Rob Turner’s contract extended were rebuffed by chairman Ray Schoer at the group’s annual ge...
Deakin Financial Services Group has unveiled plans to merge with AustChoice Financial Services, a move which would see a new top 10 player enter the dealer group arena....
Investor Group has reached an in principle agreement to purchase Queensland accounting and financial planning business TCM Partners, rounding off a year of acquisitions f...
The representative body of advisers in AXA dealer groups, the Authorised Representatives Association (ARA), has backed down on threats to withdraw from the peak industry ...
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...
Macquarie Bank has recorded a record profit of $242 million after tax attributable to ordinary shareholders for the half year to September 30 2003, up 32 per cent on the ...
Much has been written about how financial planners can gain increased business efficiencies and put in place appropriate succession planning strategies, says Peter Dawson...
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...
The final draft of a set of international standards for financial planning should be ready for comment next March....
Despite a record haul of enforcement outcomes for the 2002/03 financial year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has pledged to be even more ruth...
IOOF has been denounced in a recent Supreme Court ruling after the presiding Judge considered its case plagued with “inconsistencies” and that “virtually every witness wa...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...