A strong wealth management performance in Australia and New Zealand helped lift AXA’s net profit for the half-year to June 30 by 36 per cent to $246 million....
Challenger has sold the former HSBC Private Investment Group to Deutsche Private Wealth Management for an undisclosed sum....
Australia’s five largest banks increased their wealth management income by 19.2 per cent and their funds under management by 11.3 per cent in the first half of 2004-05, a...
Financial planning software vendors may have differing views on whether web-based solutions will predominate in the short-term, but all providers have one thing in common...
Nothing much has changed on Money Management’s list of Top 50 Distributors during the space of the last 12 months....
MLC has finalised a deal giving it 100 per cent ownership of a Hong Kong-based wealth management business for a purchase price of $148 million....
The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...
Australia is one of the top ten countries for creating high-net-worth individuals, with 134,000 of us now having investable assets of more than US$1 million excluding hom...
Centrestone Wealth Advisory Group has acquired the risk insurance practise of Garvan Financial Planning risk insurance representative Phil Dixon....
The financial services division of the Promina group will undergo an internal restructure as it looks to turn a tidy profit into a growth strategy for its adviser network...
Perpetual Trustees has been given the green light by Irish authorities to kick off its new Dublin-based global equities business, with the go-ahead coinciding with today’...
AXA Asia Pacific reported an 18 per cent rise in operating earnings (excluding health) to $354.2 million this morning, yet this failed to translate into higher margins wi...
The new chief of the St George bank’s financial planning network will aim to forge closer links between its 100-plus advisers and the bank’s retail banking arm....
ANZ chief executive John McFarlane has played down speculation he will expand the bank’s wealth management business through acquisitions in the near future, while announc...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...