CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Pengana Holdings has called off talks with a subsidiary of prominent investor Robert Whyte’s Audant Investments group after the pair failed to agree on the final terms of...

Financial planning

MLC and Fiducian Portfolio Services have marked today’s official release date of term allocated pensions by launching four more of the new retirement income stream produc...

Financial planning

Investment management software provider, DST International, is set to extend its regional presence with plans to open a new office in Jakarta on October 1 in a move that ...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition’s proposed tax plan has been branded short term and opportunistic, with yesterday’s announcement by Labor leader Mark Latham triggering a barrage o...

Financial planning

Platform provider Navigator today became the latest fund manager to roll-out its own Term Allocated Pension products ahead of law changes that will see the new income str...

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

IWL has reported a significant turnaround in its financial earnings this year, due largely to a buoyant stock market boosting its now fully integrated online broking arm ...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has finalised its new executive line-up, just two weeks after appointing ex-Citigroup boss Ahmed Fahour as chief executive officer, by signing-up ...

Financial planning

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

Superannuation

Australians are becoming more realistic as to the level of savings required to fund a reasonable quality of life in retirement, with one in three recent retirees not havi...

Editorial

IOOF management is no longer living ‘hand to mouth’ as greater earnings certainty, stemming partly from positive inflows in the 2004 financial year, is enabling managemen...

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...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is encouraging trustees to apply early for licences under the Superannuation Safety Amendment Act 2004 by assuring them it ...

Financial planning

Switzerland-based insurance company Zurich Financial Services has nearly doubled its net income for the first half of 2004 pinning the rise on higher premium income, lowe...

Financial planning

Morningstar and its former chief executive Graham Rich are one step closer to a potential courtroom showdown after the NSW Supreme Court rejected two claims by the resear...

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