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Financial planning

Some of Australia’s largest master trust providers are preparing to push the envelope of retail managed fund and share market investing with the addition of separately ma...

Financial planning

Web-based risk profiler ProQuest has rolled out its risk profiling system in the United States (US) and claims it is already dealing with a steady stream of interest from...

Financial planning

The Professional Investment Services (PIS) dealer group is close to signing two joint venture deals with major institutional players in both Canada and America....

Funds management

Macquarie Bank has struck a joint venture agreement with ProLogis, a North American commercial property company, to roll out its first listed US property trust on the Aus...

Financial planning

Former Financial Planning Association (FPA) chairman Ray Griffin has become the first non-American financial planner to be elected chairman of the International Certfied ...

Financial planning

The confidence of Australian investors in the Australian economy and their investing environment has improved significantly since the end of last year, according to the l...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has failed in its attempt to include the term ‘financial planner’ in the list of restricted words and expressions in the Financia...

Financial planning

Sovereign has backtracked on its plans to give one of its advisers $1 million next year as a reward for writing business. The turnaround comes as the Commonwealth Bank's ...

Financial planning

Beacon Financial Services has become the latest investment management business to suffer in the wake of a slowing economy and the September 11 tragedy in the US, announci...

Financial planning

A new research report into the burgeoning portfolio transition management business has uncovered a surprisingly large gap between the costs quoted for transitioning funds...

Superannuation

A leading United States superannuation expert says the New Zealand Government’s plans to prefund New Zealand Superannuation are commendable, however he says there are two...

Financial planning

Australian shares look likely to maintain their status as an investor “safe haven” compared with other share markets, a panel of the financial services industry’s top chi...

Financial planning

Fund managers in New Zealand are being criticised for their decision to close many of their funds following the terrorist attacks in the United States earlier this month....

Financial planning

AMP and Macquarie have suspended business within certain unit trusts amid warnings from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to investors that a numbe...

Funds management

In preparation for the roll out of retail and wholesale fund of funds hedge funds later this year, Colonial First State has appointed as its hedge funds consultants, Harc...

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