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Financial planning

Macquarie Bank has entered exclusive negotiations with Dutch bank ING Group over plans to acquire the latter’s Asian equity business – a variety of equity sales, trading ...

Financial planning

The Deakin Financial Services takeover of AustChoice, made fully effective late last week, may result in job losses as Deakin pursues “synergies” within the newly combine...

Financial planning

Macquarie Funds Management (MFM) received four senior staff resignations yesterday with two of the defectors departing to join former head of the division David Deverall ...

Funds management

Macquarie Direct Property has launched a commercial property syndicate based on its conviction the sector is on the verge of rebounding strongly from a 30 year low....

Financial planning

John Wilkinson discovers there is a whole lot of rebating going on between platforms and dealer groups – but many platforms are shy about revealing the exact nature of th...

Financial planning

If the National Australia Bank is ultimately successful in nabbing AMP, it will unbalance the pillars of power says, Graham Rich....

Financial planning

If you’ve always wanted to throw in your 10 cents worth on where you feel the industry has gone wrong – here is your opportunity. Julie Bennett reports....

Financial planning

The Macquarie Group has stamped its name on this year’s Assirt service level awards, taking out top place in both the funds management and platform categories after comin...

Financial planning

Russell Investment Group has appointed boutique investment manager Orion Asset Management to the Russell Australian Shares Fund, reducing the mandate weightings of Allian...

People & Products

Former Assirt head of distribution and product, Rebecca Jacques, who tendered her resignation from the research house on Monday and left later that day has joined alterna...

Funds management

Macquarie Bank and the US-based Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR) are seeking A$550 million from investors, in the largest Australian property capital raisi...

Financial planning

Platinum Asset Management and Macquarie Wrap Solutions have resolved a brief but public dispute after Platinum moved to withdraw its funds from the latter’s platform inve...

Financial planning

Macquarie Adviser Services has streamlined the senior reporting lines for its sales and marketing teams, elevating former head of adviser sales Jason Huddy and Macquarie ...

Financial planning

Fraud in financial services will come under close scrutiny next month when a hard hitting and potentially industry damaging report on the issue is released....

Financial planning

Financial planning software provider IWL released VisiPlan version 5.8 last week and is already gearing up for version 5.9 – to be released in late October and include op...

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