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Westpac has experienced a 10.2 per cent rise in half year net profit it said today and confirmed it had reached agreement to sell its consumer finance business AGC to GE ...

Funds management

Macquarie Bank has struck a joint venture agreement with ProLogis, a North American commercial property company, to roll out its first listed US property trust on the Aus...

Funds management

A new disclosure code to be introduced in the UK will revolutionise the level of transparency over the fees UK fund managers charge their pension fund clients....

Editorial

ANZ has made a record first half profit of $1.05 billion on the back of growth of corporate business, fee income and credit cards....

Financial planning

Assirt chief executive Krystyna Weston has announced her departure from the research house to take up the role of head of retail distribution with AMP Henderson Global In...

Financial planning

Westpac and Rothschild Australia Asset Management will combine their funds management businesses to form a new organisation, following the announcement yesterday of Westp...

Financial planning

Fees in retail superannuation funds continue to be almost double that of other sectors of the superannuation industry despite remaining static since 1999, according to a ...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse Asset Management’s Asian (ex-Japan) funds management operations will move headquarters from London and New York to Sydney in a move by the group to take adv...

People & Products

Assirt chief executive Krystyna Weston has announced her departure from the research house to take up the role of head of retail distribution with AMP Henderson Global In...

Financial planning

Cultural issues play an important role in the relationship between client and adviser. NICOLE SZOLLOS reports on some of the challenges faced by advisers working in Asia....

Financial planning

Australian based companies are preparing to capture a bigger slice of the burgeoning market for financial services in Asia with at least three major organisations making ...

Financial planning

Chifley Financial Services will rollout a wider range of products and revise its current master trust under plans put forward by owners, the Local Government Super Scheme...

Financial planning

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings released its year end results today, projecting a strong outlook for future growth, despite a drop in investment earnings....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has passed a special resolution to recognise the contribution made by non-financial planners to the association....

Financial planning

The ANZ Bank will look to double its adviser sales force to over 600 within three years after it was confirmed yesterday that its in-house financial planners would not be...

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