WEALTH MANAGEMENT DIVISION

Financial planning

NZ-based general and life insurance firm Tower will seek to grow by acquisition using a $130 million cash payment it will receive next year from the sale of its wealth ma...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank, despite reporting a healthy operating profit for its wealth management business, has ended an otherwise tough year on a bad note after today repo...

Editorial

Perpetual is looking to its new global equities operation in Dublin to help it achieve a 10 per cent growth target by the end of June next year....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has signed a deal with Newcastle Permanent Building Society to badge BT’s wrap suite as the core platform within the NSW central coast firm’s wealth ma...

Financial planning

Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) shareholders delivered a landslide vote last week in favour of Challenger Financial Services Group’s (CFSG) proposal to acqu...

Financial planning

Tower Trust has appointed former JPMorgan executive Philip Joseph to head its corporate trust business and drive a new growth strategy aimed at increasing its presence in...

Financial planning

Associated Planner Financial Services shareholders delivered a landslide vote this morning in favour of Challenger Financial Services Group's proposal to acquire the deal...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services Group has revealed the specific details of its proposed merger with Associated Planners Financial Services following the Federal Court yeste...

Financial planning

Tower Limited is continuing to tweak its wealth management division with the aligning of Tower Credit Union Alliance with planning arm Bridges Financial Services....

Financial planning

Tower Limited, 15 months into a two year rebuilding program of the group, appears to have put its recent woes behind it with today’s net profit after tax announcement of ...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has merged its Premium Financial Services (PFS) and Institutional and Business Services (IBS) divisions resulting in the departure of IBS group exec...

Financial planning

National Australia Financial Planning Business (NAFPB) has relocated its planners away from the metropolitan centres and head offices of the three states it operates in t...

Financial planning

Boosted by an upturn in market conditions, Suncorp delivered a better than expected net profit today across its three main business areas – banking, general insurance and...

Financial planning

Industry Fund Services (IFS) is incorporating two of Australia's largest eligible roll-over funds in a bid to generate “genuine capital scale” in preparation for its plan...

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 ...

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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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