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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...

Financial planning

Colonial First State is preparing to launch a new master trust platform for both the Colonial and Commonwealth Bank businesses as part of what appears to be a newfound ma...

Financial planning

The latest news from within the Commonwealth Bank group is just the closing moves in one of the biggest industry mergers in recent years. GEORGE LIONDIS looks at where it...

Financial planning

NICOLE SZOLLOS explores the correlation between the number of planners employed by a distributor and funds under advice. ...

Financial planning

The influence of large scale financial institutions in the financial advice market shows no signs of abating. GEORGE LIONDIS reports on Money Management’s second annual l...

Financial planning

Derivative products have been sidestepped by planners but as Jason Spits writes they are moving out of the shadows....

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and Colonial First State have rolled their respective asset management divisions into one despite earlier assurances that such a move would no...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank’s online stockbroker, CommSec, has launched a margin lending product direct to investors that will combine margin loans with a savings plan to allow...

Funds management

Colonial First State Property has reinforced its New Zealand commitment with the purchase of a New Zealand property funds management company, Kiwi Income Properties Limit...

Financial planning

Australia’s retail managed funds market has overcome the market turmoil and investor insecurity that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US to record posit...

Editorial

It has become common for discussions on the factors influencing investment markets to refer to the ever-growing sums in superannuation. A significant proportion of this c...

Financial planning

Investors in Australian Plantation Timber’s managed investment schemes will still get their tax deductions now that the company has been rescued by Zurich Capital Markets...

People & Products

Commonwealth Bank senior executive Gail Kelly has scored the chief executive officer role at St George Bank, starting early next year....

Financial planning

Sovereign has backtracked on its plans to give one of its advisers $1 million next year as a reward for writing business. The turnaround comes as the Commonwealth Bank's ...

Financial planning

Australia’s funds management industry is shrinking, with the total assets under management dropping by almost 6 per cent since June 30, according to the latest Assirt rep...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

1 month 3 weeks ago

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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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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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