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Investec has made a further push into southern hemisphere financial services with the acquisition of a business in Australia and planned acquisition of a firm in South Af...

Financial planning

</B>There are three main ways financial planners market their business, says consultant Carol Davis of Carol Davis & Associates. Davis has recently completed the Resnik/I...

Financial planning

</B>Growing and mature planning businesses use one of three main ways to market their business according to industry consultant Carol Davis of Carol Davis & Associates. ...

Financial planning

Changes in the market can generate changes in opinions. Tom Collins takes a sweeping look at the multitude of changes facing the financial services industry. He even revi...

Financial planning

The financial services industry will need to become more innovative in developing products for retiring baby boomers according to AMP Financial Services managing director...

Financial planning

UK-based Prudential has set the consolidation ball rolling in 2001 with the year’s biggest acquisition to date, snapping up US-based American General Corporation for abou...

Financial planning

Paul O’Brien has stepped in to the top job at New Zealand’s peak financial advisers association, the Financial Planners and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA)....

Financial planning

ANZ has outsourced its Australian equities investment management to Allianz Asset Management....

Financial planning

The creation of a new accountant based dealer group mid last year resulted in a whirl of publicity as some big names struck out on their own. Kate Kachor looks at their p...

Financial planning

Changes in the market can generate changes in opinions. Tom Collins takes a sweeping look at the multitude of changes facing the financial services industry. He even revi...

Financial planning

Life insurance companies in New Zealand are battling to win over brokers following the merger of Sovereign and Colonial. ...

Financial planning

“We’ve been together for ten years and all the original members are still on board. We are often asked how we have managed to keep working together for this long because ...

Financial planning

The growth of financial planning, particularly the top level, is being hampered in New Zealand by the changing face of the advisory industry. ...

Life/Risk

Financial advisers are failing in their compliance duties in selling disability insurance, according to the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

SJP Insurance has spawned a financial planning dealer group to house the group’s 200 life agents and brokers. Strategic Joint Partners, the financial planning division ...

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