WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

Equity Trustees (EQT) has recruited former Financial Services Partners chief executive Geoff Rimmer to head up its newly-created Private Wealth Services division, effecti...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have significantly increased their allocations to fixed income investments in the past 18 months and are likely to increase that further, according to ...

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Superannuation

Equity Trustees is planning to target small to medium corporate superannuation funds with a sophisticated investment and services offering, with basic MySuper investment ...

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Funds management

AMP-aligned dealer groups appear to have faced a tough period, with all bar one reporting negative cash-flows in the first quarter of 2012....

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Financial planning

The Colonial First State restructure sees Brian Bissaker depart with the separation of advice and changed reporting lines....

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Funds management

Entrust Private Wealth has decided to take portfolio administration inhouse and implemented IRESS as its private wealth technology platform....

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Funds management

The wealth management industry is failing to properly educate retirees about longevity risk and investment risk, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers...

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Financial planning

A new survey has revealed Asia/Pacific wealth managers are more optimistic about the outlook for 2012 and a soft landing in China....

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Financial planning

Private advisory firm Lachlan Partners has selected HUB24 as its preferred platform provider....

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People & Products

Business strategy professional Peter Dale has been employed as executive director for executive search company Boyden - a key role in recruiting senior executive and lead...

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Financial planning

Mercer has completed a deal to provide Citibank Australia with research and an adviser portal. In a separate deal, Mercer is set to become an investment consultant to SFG...

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Financial planning

A new full-service stock broking group has launched in Australia this week - the Octa Phillip Financial Group....

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Editorial

Yellow Brick Road has more than doubled its revenue in the half year to 31 December, but a huge increase in expenditure has led to its after-tax losses growing from $0.5 ...

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Funds management

Tasmanian Perpetual Trustees has announced its Select Mortgage Fund has been given a three-star rating by S&P, although the rating will only stand until S&P's 1 October w...

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Editorial

SFG Australia has announced a 5 per cent increase in net profit after tax, boosted by cost savings from the integration of Snowball Group and Shadforth Financial Group....

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