MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Financial planning

Australia’s chief standards setting organisation, Standards Australia, has weighed into the debate about the quality of financial planning advice by revealing plans to de...

Financial planning

From its birth only three years ago, Matrix Financial Group has established a successful network of financial advisers. BARBARA MESSER reports....

Financial planning

Financial planning executive Ross Johnston has left dealer group Bridges to embark on a new venture as an independent consultant....

Editorial

What was once an investment class largely ignored by Australian investors has now emerged as a market contender. KATE KACHOR examines the rise and future of hedge funds....

Financial planning

SINCE its merger with St George Bank in 1997, and in particular over the past year, Advance Asset Management has battled to receive market attention of its own....

Financial planning

Three months after the Financial Services Reform Act was passed, ASIC is still pushing its licensing message to the financial services industry to get organised and get c...

Financial planning

Bridgeport executive director Robert MC Brown is frustrated when Bridgeport is described as a dealer group as he says that view ignores the essence of the group and where...

Financial planning

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

The financial planning industry has become one of Australia’s most sought after industries for employment, according to the latest Morgan & Banks job index....

Financial planning

The financial planning industry has become one of Australia’s most sought after industries for employment, according to the latest Morgan & Banks job index....

Financial planning

Mergers and acquisitions, an increase in claims and more generous definitions of Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) have reduced the number of group life products on of...

Financial planning

You walk past the fishtank, mulling over the meetings and intrigue. After pacing for a while, you seat yourself on a gigantic cushion and lean back. Maybe even close your...

Financial planning

Stephen Van Eyk was rather surprised to find himself inundated with job applications after comments on the company’s expansion were published in Money Management last yea...

Financial planning

Amidst all the talk of mergers and acquisitions in the life insurance industry, it’s easy to lose sight of the strength and size of the industry in Australia. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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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The Federal Court has made interim orders to freeze the assets of a managed investment scheme, its responsible entity, and a director....

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