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Hunter Hall Investment Management has been given a damning report card by Morningstar in the research house’s sector strength rating of the boutique manager....

Financial planning

Lifeplan Funds Management has broken the $1 billion funds under management barrier....

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been issued with an order from the Federal court restraining him from receiving money in connection with the supply of financial product...

Financial planning

AMP has announced it will close its Australian Financial Services division’s broking service as of tomorrow, at the same time as the group anointed a new chairman to repl...

Financial planning

New Zealand based financial services group Tower has announced a $32 million writedown of its Australian financial planning business, Bridges Financial Services, to recor...

Financial planning

AXA Asia Pacific announced today that it had extended the contract of its chief executive, Les Owen, by two years....

Financial planning

The managing director of AMP Financial Services, Craig Dunn, and the managing director of Vanguard Investments Australia, Jeremy Duffield, have been appointed to the boar...

Financial planning

A former AMP financial adviser, Laurence John Tobin, has been sentenced to two and a half years jail after pleading guilty to charges laid by the Australian Securities an...

Editorial

Listed financial planning group Count Financial has forecast an $8 million operating profit for the current financial year....

Financial planning

Accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford has filled one of the vacancies on its troubled board with the appointment of Dan Payne as non-executive director...

Financial planning

FORMER Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph has joined with the former chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Life/Risk

The Federal Government will be pushing to include professional indemnity cover in any legislation the states make on public liability insurance....

Financial planning

Stockford chair Chris Riordan has attributed the group’s poor performance through 2001 and 2002 to the key issues of board instability, profit downgrades due to integrati...

Financial planning

AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl has handed over the reins of chairman at the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to Queensland Investment Corporation ch...

Financial planning

Challenger International has made changes to its board structure in the wake of criticism of its corporate governance practices with the roles of chair and managing direc...

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