AFTER just four months in the job, Assirt’s head of research John Parrish has resigned, unsure whether he will stay in the research industry....
There used to be one name for fund managers who pooled money to invest with a range of fund managers. So what happened? FIONA MOORE reports on the rise of the multi-manag...
The funds management and banking sectors have been in an acquisition frenzy during the past two years, fulfilling the industry prophecy of rationalisation. FIONA MOORE ta...
Financial planning software provider Investment Data Technologies (IDT) is to outsource the training for its software platform to independent training organisation Integr...
MLC has dedicated 150 of its staff to formulate the design of a project to utilise the $200 million committed to the group’s wealth management operations by National Aust...
Sue Laing, the person hired by the Westpac Bank to head up its ill-fated plans to launch a new dealer group, is set to leave the bank, adding the closing chapter to Westp...
The combined Commonwealth/Colonial and National Australia/MLC groups have confirmed their top positions as the largest Australian retail fund managers....
Australian groups, armed with the lessons they’ve learned over the last decade, are now taking on the world’s financial planning markets. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....
The ANZ Bank will look to double its adviser sales force to over 600 within three years after it was confirmed yesterday that its in-house financial planners would not be...
NICOLE SZOLLOS explores the correlation between the number of planners employed by a distributor and funds under advice. ...
The influence of large scale financial institutions in the financial advice market shows no signs of abating. GEORGE LIONDIS reports on Money Management’s second annual l...
When you’re on a good thing, stick to it. JOHN WILKINSON spoke to State Trustees’ new managing director Libby Lomas....
If their phenomenal level of growth is anything to go by, non-super master trusts appear destined to become the dominant investment vehicle in Australia. GEORGE LIONDIS r...
In line with Assirt shifting its focus from a pure research based group to offering diversified research consultancy services, former NSP Buck investment consultant gener...
Macquarie Financial Services is in the middle of an extensive overhaul of its stock broking business that will see the group provide a full service broking division by la...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...