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Financial planning

Strategic Investments Australia has undergone an internal restructure, resulting in the promotion of Chris Lumby to chief executive officer....

Financial planning

The Assirt research house has downgraded Colonial First State Investment’s Australian equities capabilities and demoted the majority of its Australian equity products ahe...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has suffered a set back in its attempt to take on the Australian Tax Office (ATO) over its decision to exclude financial planners...

Financial planning

The flip side of administration platform fees is the value that master trusts can help generate for a financial planning business. Tynan Mackenzie chief executive officer...

Financial planning

The highly competitive race to become the pre-eminent provider of straight through processing services to the Australian managed fund market came to a head last week, wit...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has issued the Government with a stern warning that any reluctance to reform Australia’s retirement incomes syste...

Financial planning

The chief executive of the Australian Consumer Association (ACA) Lousie Sylvan has criticised the financial planning industry for low levels of disclosure and for the fal...

Financial planning

AMP has moved into what it has identified as one of three priority markets of Europe, in acquiring Italian wealth management business Commerzbank Asset Management Italia ...

Financial planning

The Westpac Bank has made a commitment to spend more than $1 billion on financial services and support for women over the next five years....

People & Products

The St George Bank has filled its Investment Services chief executive position, vacated by the sudden departure of Richard Cawsey, with Yorkshire Bank chief operating off...

Financial planning

MLC has dedicated 150 of its staff to formulate the design of a project to utilise the $200 million committed to the group’s wealth management operations by National Aust...

Financial planning

The proposed merger between the Australian Retirement Incomes Streams Association (ARISA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) will go ahead after...

Financial planning

Specialist investment research group 5Di will expand its operations and move into supplying its own manage the manager (MTM) style investment funds....

Financial planning

Administration and software provider SunGard has slammed the progress of e-commerce in Australia’s financial services sector, despite the imminent announcement of a Mfund...

Financial planning

The Norwich Union group has teamed up with Australia’s largest independently owned dealer group, Professional Investment Services (PIS), to distribute its flagship master...

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