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The man with a Midas touch for property investment owes much of his success to the harsh lessons of Estate Mortgage and keeping close to his customers, including financia...

People & Products

Former Sagitta Wealth Management chief executive Peter Martin has abandoned plans to kick-off a new venture, Rismark International, after splitting with a consortium that...

Funds management

Traditional Australian bond managers continue to add value as they race to compete with the rush of alternative fixed interest products coming onto the market, according ...

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager MFS Group is set to list on the Australian Stock Exchange via a ‘back-door’ listing after announcing plans to merge with a publicly floated investme...

Financial planning

The ‘product flog’ is hampering attempts at professionalism by financial planners. The big institutions need to ease the sales pressure on advisers, writes Ray Griffin....

Financial planning

Australia’s prudential regulator is in a stronger position to monitor the banking, general insurance and superannuation industries thanks to receiving a significant boost...

Financial planning

Westpac Bank has followed its banking cousins ANZ and St George with its own record profit announcement today, leaving NAB as the likely party pooper later in the week wh...

Financial planning

Former Grosvenor Securities representative Robert Andrew Street awaits sentencing in the County Court of Victoria after pleading guilty to fraud charges to the value of $...

People & Products

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is aiming to have a replacement head for its Financial Wisdom advice group in place before the mid-October departure of incumbent gener...

Financial planning

Former executive director of Harts Australasia, Maxwell John Sweetman, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Brisbane District Court to insider trading following an investigati...

Financial planning

Mortgage brokers are the latest target in the soft dollar disclosure crusade with the Mortgage Industry Association of Australia (MIAA) unveiling a new code requiring bro...

Financial planning

Inflows to the life insurance risk market rose 10.9 per cent to $4.2 billion in the 12 months to June 2004, according to a Plan For Life report....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced the new head of its Financial Wisdom dealer group after appointing internal staffer Paul Barrett today to replace Jerome ...

Financial planning

Tribeca Learning’s education mandates with the Financial Planning Association and the Australian Stock Exchange have contributed to an improvement in revenue of more than...

Financial planning

The Australian fixed interest sector could deliver negative returns to investors next year as it faces a subdued short to medium-term outlook fuelled by anticipated inter...

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