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Financial planning

InvestmentLink will now integrate the first full service wrap into its e-Portfolio service, with Netwealth’s wrap to be offered through the hub....

Financial planning

Budding software group Online Business Technologies (OBT) has signed its first major financial services client after aligning with Zurich Financial Services Australia to ...

Financial planning

Praemium Portfolio Services and CARM GPS have agreed to integrate their respective business platforms, to streamline and industrialise sales and business processes for fi...

Financial planning

The ING investment platform, Optimix Investment Management, has added four new managers to the panel for its Australian equities, fixed interest and cash offerings....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has signed an exclusive agreement with PM Capital to launch the first PM long-only equity fund available to the retail market....

Financial planning

An industry working party into soft dollar payments has called for the removal of a number of common forms of inducements in its recommendations announced today....

Financial planning

Sealcorp will not pitch its low cost platform, Elements, into the market on the basis of price, stating such a move would reduce it to the level of a commodity, according...

Financial planning

ING Australia will reverse the trend to move into retail with the launch of a wholesale version of its retail Tax Effective Income Trust tomorrow following the fund’s str...

Financial planning

Praemium Portfolio Services has struck a deal with InvestmentLink to offer advisers consolidated reporting and online transactions across all platforms and fund managers....

Financial planning

Count Financial has revealed its new wrap - platform2 - targeting the high net worth market as a re-badged BT Financial Group offering and will roll out the initiative at...

Financial planning

SMF Funds Management has surpassed $2 billion in funds under management (FUM) and now has in excess of 100,000 members investing in the group....

Financial planning

Estate Planning Professionals of Australia (EPP) has introduced a new platform into the market aiming to combat administration issues for estate planning with reduced cos...

People & Products

United Funds Management has appointed former Equity Trustees national distribution manager Stan Bates and will now vigorously seek to grow its funds management and instit...

Financial planning

Dealer groups could be faced with compliance issues over slow trades and transactions inside platforms, according to Colonial First State general manager of product Brian...

Financial planning

Vanguard Investments has been awarded a five star ranking for its 10 funds currently available in the market and has also been rated ‘very strong’ across all business sec...

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