CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has appointed Jane Watts as general manager of Westpac Private Bank, following the departure of Jan Swinhoe....

Editorial

With the private equity 'barbarians' rattling Perpetual's gates, Mike Taylor writes that there will be plenty of interest in the future of the company's Private Wealth bu...

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Funds management

Count Financial and Professional Investment Services are adapting to the new world order....

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Life/Risk

With underinsurance continuing to be a problem in Australia, a panel of advisers has agreed the onus is on the industry to address the problem from within, rather than re...

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Financial planning

AXA-owned Genesys Wealth Advisers has completed the first stage of an equity offer to member firms, but despite almost 80 per cent of member firms taking part the offer f...

Funds management

Count Financial has selected Bell Direct’s Desktop Broker as an additional online equity trading platform....

Financial planning

Centric Wealth has released its own professional standards of best practice, which have received the endorsement of the Financial Planning Association (FPA)....

Financial planning

Industry Super Network chief David Whiteley has sought to proclaim a new accounting standard as a fork in the road for ethical advice....

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Editorial

ANZ reports strong profit but remains low-key on growth in wealth management....

Funds management

NAB reports bumper profit, and gives some of the credit to the strength of NAB Wealth and MLC....

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Superannuation

The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) has appointed Peter Crump and Andrew Hamilton to its board....

Superannuation

The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals’ Association of Australia does not support the ban on asset-based fees that has been proposed by the Accounting Profession...

Financial planning

Count Financial expects that its strategic software partnership with Iress Market Technology will result in a 50 per cent increase in productivity of the advice process, ...

Financial planning

Count Financial has handed its investment research mandate to Lonsec, ending a long-term relationship with van Eyk Research....

Financial planning

DKN’s Phil Butterworth warns that the price of reform may be fewer and much busier planners....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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