FUNDS MANAGEMENT BUSINESS

Financial planning

Halifax is expected to buy Britain troubled Equitable Life later today, having beat off a last-minute bid from GE Capital....

Financial planning

St George has expanded its distribution reach with the purchase of a 5 per cent stake in Virtual Communities for $18 million....

Financial planning

West Australian financial services group Plan B is remaining tight-lipped about expansion plans into the eastern states....

Financial planning

This was going to be a court case that promised everything. Money, high society, glamour and a smattering of sex. It also promised to blow the lid off how the City of Lon...

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual has unveiled a 48 per cent growth in net profit in the year to September 30 to $174 million, thanks to its fast growing funds management and life insura...

Financial planning

A push to make Portfolio Partners more retail-orientated and increasing market share in the superannuation business are the Norwich Union’s new chief executive officer’s ...

People & Products

Former National Asset Management (NAM) managing director Paul Laband has been signed by Towers Perrin to head up investment management at TRM and head up its asset consul...

Financial planning

The AMP Asset Management brand has now officially disappeared from the Australian market....

Financial planning

The AMP Asset Management brand has now officially disappeared from the Aus-tralian market....

Financial planning

Tasmanian Trustees is looking at boosting its funds management business through internal growth and its new joint-venture banking operation with Bendigo Bank, says new ch...

Financial planning

Portfolio Partners is offering two of its wholesale funds with a focus on high-growth and emerging shares into the retail market....

People & Products

Respected financial services executive David Clarke has quit his spot as MLC chief executive to take on a senior financial services post vacated by David Fite earlier thi...

Financial planning

AM Corporation has dropped Investors Mutual and Maple-Brown Abbott as boutique managers used in its managed the managers style on its $500 million AM Australian Equities ...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

Challenger's meteoric rise in the financial services industry shows no sign of abating with the $45.6 million purchase of Deutsche Life....

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

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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The Reserve Bank of Australia's latest interest rate announcement has left punters disheartened on Melbourne Cup Day....

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The Federal Court has given a verdict on ASIC’s case against Dixon Advisory director Paul Ryan which had alleged he breached his director duties....

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