Standard & Poor’s has a long history in the financial industry and as Rebecca Evans reports, it is planning for a great future....

Aurora is heading into new territory with its focus on the risk and superannuation advice market. Rebecca Evans reports....

Principal Global Investors (PGI) Australia has re-entered the Australian fixed income market following the expiry of a non-compete contract clause in its US-parent’s sale...

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed its 28 per cent rise in net profit for the financial year just ended to resurgent equity markets, improved general and l...

Advice group Benwest Investment Services has teamed up with Lifestyle Financial to create the Boutique Group, a new co-operative offering back office services to small in...

Asgard will offer a 28 per cent reduction in risk premium rates for larger employer groups while raising premiums for some personal insurance products by up to 40 per cen...

Trust Company of Australia is narrowing its strategic focus after announcing the sale of its equity custody arm to ANZ and plans to offload its Permanent Business Adviser...

Freya Purnell takes a look at the platform products most favoured by dealer groups in 2004....

Melbourne-based index fund manager Vanguard Investments Australia is expanding its operations with the opening of a Sydney office to service advisers and build on inflows...

Listed financial services group Count Financial will transfer advisers of Count owned dealer group Compound Investments to work under its parent brand and licence over th...

Master trusts have changed the corporate superannuation landscape to the extent that winding down a fund and outsourcing to a master trust is now de rigeur....

Risk insurance group PrefSure Life will cut its ties with up to 1500 financial planners choosing instead to focus on a core group of 45 advisers, saving $3 million in exp...

Citigroup Asset Management (CAM) is set to expand its retail presence in the Australian market with plans to launch a range of new products with the aim of building on it...

Australian retail property syndicate Centro MCS has launched a wholesale version of its direct property fund hard on the heels of the retail version of the offering....