FUNDS MANAGEMENT BUSINESS

Funds management

Trust Company is aiming to increase its market presence by expanding the external distribution of its Australian equity products following the appointment of former Perpe...

Financial planning

The Garrisons financial planning groups and the Synergy master trust businesses will be split and run separately as the result of ongoing restructuring occurring within t...

Financial planning

First State Investments has made the first official move to establish a presence in China, with its Chinese funds management venture lodging an application with the Chine...

Financial planning

Equity Trustees will consider the roll out of a self-managed superannuation funds administration package in a bid to boost its superannuation business....

Financial planning

The value of BT to a big bank like Westpac lay in its wrap account platforms and that, argues LEO WASSERCUG, is a sign of the times....

Financial planning

Westpac wealth management group executive David Clarke yesterday confirmed what the financial services industry had long guessed ? the Sagitta name will be dropped in fav...

Financial planning

The Wilson HTM group is set to stay on the acquisition trail it started with the purchase of BNP Paribas’ Australian asset management business, confirming it is currently...

Financial planning

The head of Macquarie Adviser Services, Tim Farelly, will take a six month break from the industry after Macquarie Financial Services Group (FSG) announced a major restru...

People & Products

The Westpac Bank has confirmed today that it will pay $900 million to buy the BT Financial Group from its US parent, the Principal Financial Group, in a move that will se...

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank has relied heavily on its funds management business to post an 11 per cent increase in its net profit to $2.7 billion today....

Financial planning

Some of the smaller players in the funds management business are recording the most impressive growth in fund inflows, with the latest market share report from Assirt sho...

Financial planning

Australian Unity is to set up its own financial planning arm, with Garrisons providing the back-office support....

Financial planning

Rothschild Australia Asset Management will operate as an independent entity under the deal to combine its funds management business with Westpac Bank to create a new orga...

Financial planning

Research house InvestorWeb has place notice stating that all Rothschild funds were ‘under review’ after the group’s recent announcement that it would merge its funds mana...

Financial planning

For some time I have been confused by industry experts arguing that there will be an increase in the number of DIY and small dealer groups, when most other financial part...

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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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