COLONIAL FIRST STATE

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning is probably Australia's biggest dealer group with about 1280 plan-ners. Samantha Walker steps inside the juggernaut to see what makes it tick....

Financial planning

Colonial is moving another 300 jobs to Sydney from the Melbourne headquarters....

Financial planning

Not content to have Colonial First State adopt their talking head style of TV adver-tising, BT has embarked on a media blitz to attract the hip and happening 18 to 35s....

Financial planning

Colonial First Sate has continued its dream run, topping the 1999 Assirt Service Level Survey....

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual are a bunch of people with reasons to be happy!...

Financial planning

The Australian sharemarket's appetite for large companies with strong growth prospects appears to be diminishing....

Financial planning

A dramatic 217 per cent increase in new business for Colonial's mas-ter fund has helped its Australian retail operations turn in a net profit of $152 million for the 1999...

Financial planning

The Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) needs to improve its structure if it is to administer a registration scheme for financial advisers, acco...

Funds management

From a friendly society tradition, IOOF funds management operation has emerged as a business in its own right. ...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has combined its Australian and UK international equities teams into a single operation, reporting directly to chief executive Chris Cuffe....

Financial planning

May is quickly emerging as the month of the revolving door, as a num-ber of senior executives in the funds management industry take leave of their high profile positions....

Financial planning

Super Concepts has launched an awareness campaign to encourage more people to consider the option of retirement savings plans, according to director Chris Wilson. "The in...

Financial planning

Listed Property Trusts (LPTs) have achieved a lower risk profile with good returns during the past 18 years, according to the latest research released by Australian Unity...

Financial planning

New Zealand domiciled managed funds investing in Australian and New Zealand equities have filled the majority of Morningstar's list of top ten performers for the quarter ...

Financial planning

Far from being a threat to advisers, those financial service providers with a strong track record in the direct business often bring the same levels of service to adviser...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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