FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services Group is to undergo a major restructure as a strategic measure to ensure the dealer group maintains continued growth, profitability and stre...

Financial planning

Allco Finance Group’s funds management division is targeting more than $2 billion in new funds under management by the end of the 2006-07, following its merger with Recor...

Financial planning

Macquarie Financial Services Group has added a US-based global equity manager as another partner to its Macquarie Professional Series....

Financial planning

Publicly-listed financial services group First Capital Group Limited has received shareholder approval to complete a number of actions aimed at growing its brand and pres...

Editorial

Wealth management proved a key driver in a $216 million six month profit reported by Promina Group Limited today, with the company’s financial services division recording...

Financial planning

The Australian Financial Services Group’s move to become a fully independent dealer group has proved to be an additional catalyst for growth, with 18 new financial planni...

Financial planning

The Australian and New Zealand chartered accounting group CA Associates Australasia, which also offers financial planning services, has been re-branded and from July 1 wi...

Financial planning

The Macquarie Financial Services Group has stipulated the proposed sale of Walter Scott & Partners to Mellon Financial Corporation in the US will have no effect on the op...

Financial planning

Head of international equities at Credit Suisse, Russell Bye, believes the robust returns achieved in the face of a variety of economic conditions is a key factor as to w...

Financial planning

Perpetual Trustees Australia has dropped the ‘trustees’ designation from its title and centralised its operations into one Sydney-based location....

Financial planning

Concord Capital is the first boutique funds manager to be selected by Macquarie Bank to manage its externally managed funds in its Professional Series....

Financial planning

As predicted, investment banking and funds management giant Macquarie Bank has raked in another bumper profit of close to half a billion dollars, largely underpinned by a...

Financial planning

ASIC has launched Federal Court action against the directors of a failed Victorian vendor of equity release products that put the financial security of at least 120 inves...

Financial planning

Leading AMP out of the valley of darkness into a somewhat brighter future is Andrew Mohl’s legacy to the financial planning industry....

Financial planning

A little known financial services group has started a petition calling for fund managers to be hit with cash penalties for failing to release clients’ superannuation with...

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

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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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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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