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Norwich Union could soon introduce additional life insurance products to its Navigator platform after noting a recent resurgence in market demand for these previously out...

Hunter Hall Investment Management has undergone a staff reshuffle with the appointment of a new chief investment officer and the resignation of one investment analyst and...

Targeting ethnic markets has yielded dividends for some planners, but, as Ben Abbott writes, the days of segmenting clients by cultural background may be coming to an end...

Managers in European funds management markets who did not manage to adapt to volatile markets over the past three years suffered most according to financial information p...

Sanford Securities has appointed two top IWL staffers to its board of directors following the success of IWL’s pursuit for a majority stake in the broking group....

The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) is a step closer to introducing an international standard for financial planning to Australia that would require ...

A restricted definition for the terms ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ would protect consumers from shonky operators pretending to be financial planners, accor...

Perpetual James Fielding has launched its first fund - a wholesale property securities fund - following the creation of the joint-venture by Perpetual Trustees and the Ja...

Ex-head of financial services at St George Bank, Paul Kofod, will join Commonwealth Bank as Head of Private Banking....

Perennial Investment Partners has been given a poor rating by research house Morningstar due mainly to the fund manager’s continued “sub-par returns” over the medium to l...

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