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The New Year will see David Smith become chief executive of Zurich Financial Services Australia following the announcement that Tom Brown will be retiring from the positi...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned David Jarrett, a former Westpac employee, from providing any financial services in the future....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has been shown to be the most impressive performing business unit of Westpac for the half year ended March 31, 2006, contributing strongly to the banki...

Financial planning

Coin software has signed its first major contract with a large financial planning firm since its purchase by Macquarie Bank in May this year....

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning is moving universally onto a fee-for-service remuneration model for its advisers, becoming the first major Australian dealer group to do so officia...

Financial planning

An ever-acquisitive Macquarie Bank has taken a piece of Virgin Money Australia, the Richard Branson-backed operation responsible for Virgin Super and the Virgin credit ca...

Financial planning

With Rob Coombe at the helm, BT Financial Group identified the need to expand its advice and distribution capabilities, and took the bold step of establishing a new deale...

Funds management

Property yields will remain high in future as the funds available for investment in real estate continue to grow, despite an overall decline in net contributions to super...

Financial planning

Coin Software has put the official seal on the long anticipated deal to roll out its desktop financial planning tools to the Commonwealth Bank’s 3,000 plus adviser networ...

Financial planning

Coin Software’s acquisition by Macquarie Adviser Services would not affect its marketing and product integration relationship with van Eyk Research, according to Coin fou...

Financial planning

The recently merged Associated Planners Financial Services and Garrisons Financial Planning dealer groups have, as a single entity, signed a lucrative long term contract ...

Financial planning

Whether it was their claims of independence, the arguable benefits of their supposed lack of bias, or their fancy names, non-aligned financial planning practices both sma...

Financial planning

Westpac chief executive David Morgan will deliver an upbeat assessment of BT Financial Group to an Australasian investment forum in New York this week....

Financial planning

The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....

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