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Financial planning

Australian fund managers and platform providers are moving ahead in leaps and bounds with significant enhancements to their online service offerings in the last 12 months...

Financial planning

The Macquarie Group has stamped its name on this year’s Assirt service level awards, taking out top place in both the funds management and platform categories after comin...

Financial planning

Software provider Investment Data Technologies (IDT) has moved to integrate its adviser systems with popular wrap and master trust platforms to give planners seamless acc...

Financial planning

Online platform provider Netwealth has appointed JDV as its in-house broker platform for their wrap and superannuation products, following the announcement that the manag...

Financial planning

Wrap provider Praemium Portfolio Services has signed up another four groups to its service - bringing its total number of client adviser users to over 400....

Financial planning

In the current financial planning industry, Paul Resnik argues that everyone is unhappy. But don’t worry – he has some solutions....

Financial planning

It has been an eventful year for Garrisons, with a change in the structure of the parent company being the most significant. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Fiducian Portfolio Services has re-affirmed its intent of offering its funds and investment services to the external adviser market and has now received strong interest f...

Funds management

Macquarie Bank and the US-based Developers Diversified Realty Corporation (DDR) are seeking A$550 million from investors, in the largest Australian property capital raisi...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services is investigating a move back into the platform market after the appointment of David Coyne as head of platform development....

Financial planning

The CARM group has struck a deal to integrate its goals-based financial planning software with hub provider InvestmentLink’s e-Portfolio service to provide a new complian...

Financial planning

When the chairman of Hunter Hall International, Peter Hall, founded the ethical fund manager back in 1994, it was a one-man band that took four years to reach $30 million...

Funds management

Trust Company is aiming to increase its market presence by expanding the external distribution of its Australian equity products following the appointment of former Perpe...

People & Products

AMP has reaffirmed its strategy to expand its presence in the non-aligned adviser market with the appointment of former Perpetual Investments executive, Andrew Keay, into...

People & Products

Former Rothschild associate director and head of retail sales Chris Larsen has signed on with MLC in the new role of national manager for alliances....

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