WEALTH MANAGEMENT

People & Products

Former Tower Life Australia managing director Ken Boag has joined Rice Walker Actuaries as a senior consultant....

Financial planning

Macquarie Financial Services has agreed to purchase the New Zealand financial planning business of accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers....

Financial planning

Tower-owned advice firm Bridges Financial Services has lost its chief executive Chris Wren following an executive make-over of the Trans-Tasman firm’s wealth management a...

Funds management

AXA is preparing to boost the property related products it has on offer for advisers with both a domestic and international property fund in the pipeline at the group....

Financial planning

Tower’s decision to opt for a float of its wealth management arm instead of a trade sale was driven in part by a legacy agreement between its dealer group, Bridges Financ...

Funds management

Building societies and credit unions continue to enjoy strong growth and high profitability, despite operating in a cooling market, with KPMG suggesting wealth management...

Financial planning

MLC is counting the cost of an internal system error that has resulted in the overpayment of commissions to financial planners and could cost the group several million do...

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...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services Australia is set to lose a key executive with the resignation of investment management and life risk business head Peter Delprado, who will depa...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced the new head of its Financial Wisdom dealer group after appointing internal staffer Paul Barrett today to replace Jerome ...

Financial planning

Tower Limited is to merge it’s two New Zealand businesses in a reverse move to last week’s proposal to split its Australian operations through a plan to separately list i...

Financial planning

Tower’s wealth management business could separately list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) as early as December, pending the outcome of a review of the proposed spli...

Editorial

Suncorp Metway rounded off the 2003-04 financial year on a high today by reporting a record 61 per cent increase in net profit across all three of its main business areas...

Financial planning

Faster, higher, stronger could easily be the motto of the Bridges group, as it strives to continually add more value for its planners and clients. Freya Purnell reports....

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