Trustee group Permanent has been signed with ISPT, the trustee of the Industry Superannuation Property Trust No.1, to provide back office functions for the super group....
It took 12 years and a lot of persuading – but Jamie Kelly, one of the faces of Mercantile Mutual, has switched camps....
Banks will dominate distribution of financial services in the future due to their massive customer bases and strong brand awareness Westpac financial planning general ma...
Commonwealth Bank managing director David Murray has called on the government to raise compulsory superannuation payments....
Ipac has developed a business model to help its planners and strategic partners service the wealth accumulator market....
Commonwealth Bank will officially takeover Colonial on June 13 and a shake-up of senior Colonial management is expected the following day....
Colonial boss Peter Smedley has been named chairman of BHP's long products business, to be called OneSteel....
Merrill Lynch and HSBC have set up a joint venture to create a global online banking and in-vestment services company....
Colonial has finally offloaded its United Kingdom life insurance and pensions business to Swiss insurance group Winterthur for $891 million....
National Australia and the Commonwealth will soon own one-fifth of the financial planning industry....
The proposed takeover of Colonial by the Commonwealth Bank will cost $447 million and lead to cost savings of up to $300 million per year, according to the scheme of arra...
A fortnight ago, Colonial was awarded the highest accolade for the investment performance of an Australian fund manager - the Money Management Fund Manager of the Year. J...
The National Australia Bank confirmed industry rumours by officially announcing it will purchase MLC from Lend Lease for $4.56 billion cash, with a completion date set fo...
Lend Lease has confirmed it is in discussions with National Australia Bank over its wholly owned subsidiary MLC....
The Commonwealth Bank has set the scene for a online trading battle, after drop-ping the price for share trades via Commonwealth Securities (ComSec) to less than twenty d...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...