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Financial planning

Macquarie Wrap Solutions has struck a deal with van Eyk Research to utilise the latter’s Blueprint series of funds across its two platforms - the high net worth Macquarie...

People & Products

Zurich Financial Services has created the new Sydney-based role of assistant head of group sales, which the group hopes will help co-ordinate its key accounts, master tru...

Financial planning

Advance Funds Management has had a number of its funds selected for inclusion on the BT SuperWrap platform and the new Symetry Portfolio Service....

Financial planning

BT Funds Management will offer its nine Partner Funds to the retail market and allow investors to access investment managers previously only available through its wrap pl...

Financial planning

When ING unveiled its Tandem Financial Advice dealer group in August 2002, the result of merging its Lynx, Partnership Planning and AustAdvisers dealer groups, the market...

Financial planning

UBS Global Asset Management (GAM) has repeated its success in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award by taking out top honours with a second back to b...

Editorial

Investors Mutual has taken out the Australian equities category of Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award for the second year running....

Financial planning

Managed funds research house Assirt has given Citigroup Asset Management Australia (CitiAM) a mixed report card stating it is performing well in domestic markets but need...

Financial planning

Platforms may make financial planners’ lives easier, but Lisa Bowman asks whether they offer consumers value for money, and whether fee levels will change going forward....

Funds management

With over two decades in the game, dealer manager Michael Summers has always kept his practices ahead of their time. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Badging’s success is unrivalled in getting planners to make use of them. Jason Spits looks at where the numbers fall....

Financial planning

If you’re looking for bells and whistles in a platform, you are spoiled for choice in this country. Julie Bennett looks at what’s on offer and what purpose it serves....

Funds management

The listed property team at Principal Global Investors (PGI) will leave the group in a month after its three members, Stuart Stuckey, Mark Thorpe-Apps and Ern Koh, resign...

Financial planning

Tower Australia has reinforced its move back into the risk insurance side of the industry with the appointment of two senior executives in the group’s sales and distribut...

Financial planning

Guardian Financial Planning was created as a haven for risk-based advisers in the face of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) and, as Simon Segal writes, the group h...

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