WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

The SwimEC (Super, Wealth and Investment Management Electronic Commerce) industry initiative mounted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the I...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Service Group has hit back at industry suggestion it is paying over the odds for adviser firm Associated Planners Financial Services....

People & Products

Tower Australia-owned risk advice dealer Pivotal Financial Services has a new head following former head of financial planning at Trust Company, Steve Murray, joining the...

Life/Risk

National Australia Bank (NAB) has no plans to outsource its Australian commercial insurance operations despite last week’s deal with AXA in the UK to take over the provis...

Life/Risk

ING Group has reached an agreement with QBE Insurance Group to sell a collection of its Mercantile Mutual general insurance interests and allowing the Holland-based firm ...

Financial planning

Tower Australia has restructured its chief sales role by dividing the risk and wealth management aspects of the position in a move resulting in the departure of Tower hea...

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...

Financial planning

AXA Australia has unveiled a new set of performance guiding indicators - the AXA 6 - after completing its K5 transformation program in December 2003....

Financial planning

Fiducian Portfolio Services has lost its head of wealth management, Paul Barrett, who has moved on to join Commonwealth Bank-owned dealer group Financial Wisdom....

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...

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

Wilson HTM has merged its two planning divisions bringing together the groups 90 financial planners and brokers under one structure....

Financial planning

AXA will lose about 50 jobs in the process of streamlining its marketing and distribution into three groupings – wealth management, financial protection and distribution ...

Funds management

Nine months into a two-year recovery strategy, Tower Limited is back in the black having posted a $4.87 million profit for the six months ended September, 2003....

Financial planning

Westpac Banking Corporation today - a year to the day since announcing its acquisition of BT Financial Group - says synergies from the highly publicised purchase last yea...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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