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Financial services consolidator Stockford has undergone a change of the guard with the group replacing retired chairman Peter Hall with Brian Clayton....

Financial planning

Challenger has opened its Australian share fund to retail investor in an attempt to capitalise on the success of its top ranking Australian equities team....

Financial planning

A series of unregistered investment schemes and the companies that promoted them have been wound up after the Victorian Supreme Court described the schemes as a sham....

Funds management

Merrill Lynch Investment Management (MLIM) are on track to be the next managers to offer a hedge fund product, with the Merrill Lynch Strategic Absolute Return Fund due l...

Financial planning

A former employee of the Melbourne based Lifestyle Group, John Lloyd Caust, has pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ court to seven charges of dishonestly using h...

Funds management

Financial services group Challenger International Ltd has bought its first Melbourne property for $22.3 million, as part of a new property syndicate for retail investors....

Financial planning

The investment watchdog will not stand in the way of any financial planning group or master trust operator who charges fund managers a fee to appear on their recommended ...

Financial planning

<caps>Major</caps> Singaporean corporates may be eyeing Australia’s telecommunications, airlines and financial services industries, but a band of smaller Australian finan...

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....

People & Products

Aberdeen Asset Management has restructured its Australian management team, resulting in the departure of former chief executive officer Ouma Sananikone....

People & Products

Well known financial planning figure Gwen Fletcher has been confirmed as the chair of the board and president of the newly formed Association of Financial Service Educato...

People & Products

Financial Services consolidator Stockford will soon be on the hunt for a new director, following its co-founder and director Ian Davidson refusing to run for re-election ...

Financial planning

Focus Investment Management founder Stephen O’Brien has confirmed the boutique funds management house will cease business after only 18 months in operation....

People & Products

St George Bank Ltd managing director and chief executive officer Edward O'Neal died over the weekend, resulting in the bank calling an emergency board meeting....

Funds management

The international and domestic sharemarkets were already suffering significant losses prior to the negative impact of the terrorist attacks in the US, according to result...

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