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The Tower group has announced it will make a strategic exit from the life insurance market in China in order to concentrate on its Australian wealth management operations...

Financial planning

The former managing director of Morningstar, Graham Rich, has signed joint venture agreements with Plan-for-Life and Resnik Communications, as part of the role out of his...

Financial planning

Australian Skandia is preparing to launch its own personal superannuation and allocated pension products after confirming today that it had managed to obtain Approved Tru...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has completed almost nine months of preparations for its much anticipated new master trust, gearing up to launch the investment platform to its finan...

Financial planning

It’s never too late when it comes to succession management. As FIONA MOORE reports, planners are advised to put a strategy in place at least 10-15 years before they plan ...

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments has launched a socially responsible investment (SRI) fund, following two years of research to determine investor and financial adviser interest in e...

Financial planning

Australian based companies are preparing to capture a bigger slice of the burgeoning market for financial services in Asia with at least three major organisations making ...

Financial planning

The UK subsidiary of Australian financial services group Challenger International has been granted a licence by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) to bring its i...

Financial planning

ING has broadened the distribution of its Optimix funds in what is sure to be seen as a challenge to the relationship between ING’s soon-to-be funds management partner, t...

Financial planning

Fidelity Investments has conducted a survey on the attitudes of UK advisors following the release of a set of proposals by the UK industry regulator Financial Services Au...

Financial planning

Macquarie Financial Services has restructured its core adviser distribution team in an attempt to boost its level of service to independent financial advisers....

Financial planning

The Westpac Banking Corporation is believed to be preparing to launch a new financial planning dealer group that will be staffed exclusively by independent financial advi...

Financial planning

One of the largest independently owned dealer groups in Australia, Count Financial, has flagged a 25 per cent drop in its operating profit for the first half of this fina...

Financial planning

MLC will use intermediaries to distribute MLC Corporate Solutions rather than going direct to market as it has done in the past....

Financial planning

Independent financial advisers are remaining disillusioned with the big banks in the personal and business superannuation market, a new survey of independent advisers has...

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