WEALTH MANAGEMENT BUSINESS

People & Products

Fiducian Portfolio Services (FPS) has unveiled its new head of wealth management, former St George Bank staffer Mark Schroeder, who joins this week with a mandate of impr...

People & Products

Tower has announced Bridges Financial Services managing director David Bleakley will step down and leave the group early in the new year after three years at the helm of ...

Financial planning

AMP has confirmed that it is willing to review its investment platform strategy as part of a bid to rejuvenate its wealth management business under new chief executive An...

Editorial

National Australia Bank today recorded the highest ever net profit for an Australian bank following its announcement of a $3.96 billion net profit after significant items...

People & Products

Former Westpac head of financial planning and advice Brett Himbury has made the move to the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), being appointed yesterday to the role of executive ge...

Financial planning

Disadvantaged investors are not bound by yesterday’s undertaking to industry regulators by the National Australia Bank to pay $67.2 million in compensation following prod...

Funds management

Suncorp Metway’s wealth management business, with a 29.3 per cent decline in profit, has tarnished what is otherwise an impressive year’s performance for the 12 months en...

Funds management

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH), with profit of $287 million, has more than doubled its performance for the six months ending June in comparison to last year’s $134 m...

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank has posted a net profit after tax of $2.012 billion, a drop of 24 per cent from last year, with funds management doing little to boost the bank’s re...

Financial planning

The ANZ Banking Group will roll out its own version of ING’s OneAnswer to its 320 bank based financial advisers....

Financial planning

Westpac and BT have appointed Scott Walters in the newly redefined role of head of financial planning, replacing Brett Himbury who left Westpac last month....

Financial planning

The ANZ Banking Group could be making the move from the BT Wrap to ING MyWrap for its Private Clients division, according to the ING group....

Financial planning

Hartleys Limited will unveil a writedown of at least $21 million for the financial year ending today due to costs associated with the restructure of the group, and has ap...

People & Products

Deutsche Bank Australia has appointed former Invesco Australia chief executive officer Michael Parsons as managing director and head of its private wealth management busi...

Editorial

National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported a $205 million write-down of its $6.5 billion wealth management business due to the continued lacklustre performance of global...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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