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Funds management

In conjunction with Money Management, Assirt has created an assessment methodology for the Fund Manager of the Year awards that aims to recognise not only managers who ha...

Superannuation

The platform market has neatly divided itself into two segments — with providers such as Asgard, BT and Navigator in one group, and the other made up of a variety of smal...

Financial planning

Goldman Sachs JBWere has outsourced its platform and portfolio services to Avanteos as part of a review of its total service provision to its core Private Clients busines...

Financial planning

The bar on professional standards in the financial planning industry has once again been raised by tough new rules which seek to eliminate conflicts of interest for advis...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning has for the first time added four non-AMP employer superannuation master trust providers to its approved products list....

Financial planning

AXA has launched a third international fund into the Australian market, this time managed by subsidiary Rosenberg....

Editorial

Australia’s second largest independent dealer group, Count Financial, has upgraded its profit guidance on the back of what it has described as continued strong growth in ...

Funds management

Boutique property fund manager MacarthurCook has launched a diversified property fund....

Financial planning

Fund managers have delivered a strong rebuke to research groups who diversify into investment management, with over 80 per cent claiming the move creates serious conflict...

Financial planning

In an attempt to boost the performance of its funds management business, Colonial First State is about to set up a new outsourcing deal with a major global player....

Financial planning

The recent decision by UBS to prevent van Eyk from reviewing its funds has focused attention on whether a conflict of interest exists where a research house offers servic...

Financial planning

AXA has cut the fees on its Summit platform in a move that the company admits is partly due to competitive pricing from ‘lite’ platforms....

Financial planning

APN Funds Management has secured platform specialist John Hyslop as its new national sales and distribution manager....

Financial planning

Consumer complaints against financial planners have fallen dramatically, prompting claims that measures taken to clean up the profession were starting to take hold....

Financial planning

ING Australia, the joint venture between ING group and ANZ, has booked a net profit after tax of $327 million for calendar 2004, up 52 per cent on 2003’s result which was...

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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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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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