UK heavyweight financial services provider Standard Life has signed a six-year contract with First NZ Capital (FNZ) to deliver a wrap service to the independent financial...
Direct investment company Explorer Group has taken a strategic stake in boutique fund manager Above the Index Asset Management and gained the services of industry stalwar...
The Advance Concentrated Australian Share Fund, managed by boutique firm MIR, is now available on the Asgard, BT and Macquarie wraps....
The investment and planning world seems to be dividing into two camps with respect to “alternative” investment strategies and assets (hedge funds, managed futures, commod...
The FPA’s Principles on Conflicts of Interest have been refined into four statements following feedback from its membership....
Count Financial expects to back up its strong performance in the first half of 2005-06, forecasting half-year earnings before interest and tax 70 per cent higher than in ...
As predicted, investment banking and funds management giant Macquarie Bank has raked in another bumper profit of close to half a billion dollars, largely underpinned by a...
Coin Software was the top ranking financial planning software and IWL’s VisiPlan had the fastest rate of enhancement in 2005, according to an independent competitive repo...
The paper work burden for financial planners has just been lightened by the release of a new product that allows planners to process electronic applications for investmen...
The first separately managed account for wraps has been launched by Direct Portfolio Services, and the company is currently in discussions with a number of platforms abou...
Navigator has added six funds to its Personal Investment Plan and Personal Retirement Plan platforms, including four funds from Fidelity Investments, two of which were la...
The fortunes of Westpac Banking Corporation continue to climb after it delivered a record profit of $2,818 million for the year ended September 30, 2005, representing an ...
Financial Wisdom believes it is well on the way to growing its team of authorised representatives beyond its target of 400 by the end of the year, after signing up three ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...