FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

Demutualisation of the New Zealand Stock Exchange has taken a major step forward, but enthusiasm for a merger with the Australian Stock Exchange appears to have waned....

Editorial

Since bursting on to the financial services scene in the middle of last year, account aggregators or screen scrapers have been one of the hottest discussion points in the...

Financial planning

The Securities Institute is to pioneer a course for the fast growing Certified Financial Analyst designation under an agreement with the Sydney Society of Financial Analy...

Funds management

Lifeplan Financial Group has begun discussions with two fund managers with a view to a merger or acquisition within the next few months. ...

Financial planning

Global sector funds may be the flavour of the month for funds management marketeers, but there is a limit to the number of sectors that can be realistically used....

Financial planning

Australia’s four biggest banks have stamped their dominance on the funds management industry, taking four spots in the top ten inflows for the three months to the end of ...

Financial planning

As some of the gloss fades from dot.com stocks and the Internet, investors are increasingly turning to the potentially lucrative biotechnology market. But, as John Wilkin...

Financial planning

Virgin boss Richard Branson has confirmed what many in the industry have thought for years. Virgin is about to bring its brand of financial services distribution to Austr...

Financial planning

Strategic Investments Australia, the new holding group of the Strategic Super Master Plan, is performing due diligence on two small master trusts with a view to acquisiti...

Financial planning

Earnings growth from US equities will remain strong enough for good returns as that economy heads for a soft landing, according to Deutsche global chief investment office...

Financial planning

A cloud hangs over the business of providing outsourcing services for fund managers, following the decision by Macquarie Portfolio Services to close its wholesale outsour...

Financial planning

New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....

Financial planning

Strategic Investments Australia, the new holding group of the Strategic Super Master Plan, is performing due diligence on two small master trusts with a view to acquisiti...

Financial planning

Phillip Matthews has been named as the first permanent chief executive the Financial Planning and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA)....

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

3 weeks ago

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

3 weeks 5 days ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 month ago

Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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