CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

If the Most Influential list was to have a rising star among its ranks that person for this year would have to be AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl....

Financial planning

The value of BT to a big bank like Westpac lay in its wrap account platforms and that, argues LEO WASSERCUG, is a sign of the times....

Editorial

AVANTEOS appears to have nosed in front of its competitors on its wrap platform development....

Financial planning

Dresdner’s Ausralian asset management subsidiary, Dresdner RCM Global Investors, has changed its name to Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (adam), following the successfu...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will create a separate commercial unit to provide education and training to its members....

Financial planning

Tower’s acting group chief executive (Australia & New Zealand) Keith Taylor has announced a number of senior executive changes at Tower, including the departure of acting...

Financial planning

Australia’s major industry associations have welcomed the Government’s push to give regulators sweeping new powers to police the $520 billion superannuation industry with...

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...

People & Products

Financial planning consolidator Investor Group has created a new management position aimed at supporting the 105 advisers across its Investor Financial Planning and Presc...

Financial planning

Financial advisers are in for a tough time over the next five to ten years, as pension products offered directly through industry superannuation funds take a larger slice...

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

IWL’s attempt to increase its stake in Perth based online broking group Sanford continues to be embroiled in controversy, with IWL chief executive Otto Buttula having to ...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified a former executive director of an insurance management group from acting as a trustee of any supera...

Financial planning

In a further shake up at the top of troubled accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford, chief executive and managing director John Malouf announced yesterd...

Financial planning

The proposed merger between financial planning technology company IWL and sharemarket information system provider Iress Market Technology has hit a stumbling block after ...

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