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Guild Commercial, the commercial arm of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, is to change its name reflect the group’s financial service activities....

Financial planning

Lester Doecke has taken up the top life insurance job at Zurich Financial Services under a shake-up of the group....

Financial planning

AXA’s aggressive push to ramp up its distribution capabilities has been given further fuel with the signing of former AMP distribution chief Neil Swindells....

Financial planning

Rationalisation of the trustee industry has started, with IOOF selling its operation to TowerTrust for an undisclosed sum....

Financial planning

IFSA members should vote on all company internal issues where they have voting rights, despite recent media speculation of a policy change, says chief executive Lynn Ralp...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signed on JD Allen & Associates as the recruitment agency in charge of forwarding candidates for the association’s chief exec...

Financial planning

Former GIO Asset Management chief executive Mark Dutton has been named chief investment officer of ipac securities....

Financial planning

Rod Atfield is to bring down the curtain on his 40 year career with Mercantile Mutual at the end of this year....

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signed on JDC Allen & Associates as the recruitment agency in charge of forwarding candidates for the association’s chief exe...

Financial planning

Lester Doecke has taken up the top life insurance job at Zurich Financial Services under a shake-up of the group....

Financial planning

AXA’s aggressive push to ramp up its distribution capabilities has been given further fuel with the signing of former AMP distribution chief Neil Swindells....

Financial planning

The financial services industry is expecting healthy profit growth this year, according to the Investment and Financial Services Association’s (IFSA) annual survey....

Financial planning

When the clock ticked over to the first of April this year tens of thousands of small superannuation funds across the country had been forced to re-evaluate where they wo...

Financial planning

A high level committee has been set up to fill the top job at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) in the wake of the departure of chief executive Mi-chael McKenna....

Financial planning

The Australian Labor Party has called for a bipartisan review of superannuation following re-search revealed most Australians believe they are not paying enough super to ...

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