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Financial planning

Boutique financial planning group Tynan Mackenzie has opened the doors on its Melbourne office, adding a fourth location to the group which is set to be managed by senior...

Funds management

Hedge fund manager specialist Financial Risk Management (FRM) has hit Australian shores, headed up by former Tower Asset Management chief executive Derek Goodyer....

Funds management

Boutique planning group Tynan Mackenzie has experience a growth spurt in recent months with new staff, offices and services. Jason Spits looks at what is driving this gro...

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Financial planning

Ratings house Assirt has upgraded BT Funds Management (BTFM) diversified product rating from hold to investment grade, or a three star rating, announcing the upgrade aft...

Financial planning

Fund managers in New Zealand are being criticised for their decision to close many of their funds following the terrorist attacks in the United States earlier this month....

Financial planning

Westpac’s online broking arm has outsourced to technology provider HP JDV in a deal which will see Westpac’s 90,000 online broking customers using HP JDV’s software to tr...

People & Products

Morningstar head of sales Toby Potter will leave the research house after submitting his resignation, effective immediately, which came at the end of a review of its busi...

Financial planning

AMP and Macquarie have suspended business within certain unit trusts amid warnings from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to investors that a numbe...

Financial planning

Fierce competition has not stopped advisers in the US from sometimes pooling their talents, and even resources, in search of new and potentially profitable synergies....

Financial planning

E*Trade has been one provider heavily slugged by the drop in online investing after droves of investors burnt by last year’s tech wreck have shunned the online investment...

Financial planning

Norwich Union's Navigator master trust has taken out the top honour and bagged five out of eight of the premier service level awards for retail financial services....

Financial planning

AMP has responded to media speculation that it has been in discussions regarding a merger with the National Australia Bank....

People & Products

ING Financial Planning chief executive officer Mark Spiers has joined the board of InvestorWeb as a non-executive director....

Financial planning

Salomon Smith Barney and Citicorp operations in Australia will emerge unscathed from the planned culling of 3500 jobs internationally from the Citigroup over the next yea...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has come out in support of the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) in the wake of criticism of it by a Parliamentary Joint Stat...

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