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Financial planning

02 Feb

Tower courts advisers as spin off gets green light

Shareholders of New Zealand based Tower Limited have “overwhelmingly” backed the move to spin off the firm’s Australian Wealth Management businesses and enter an underwri...

Financial planning

31 Jan

Ausbil takes small caps to mums and dads

Boutique investment group Ausbil Dexia will allow retail investors direct access to the underlying stocks within its wholesale Emerging Leaders Fund after today announcin...

Financial planning

28 Jan

AXA performance justifies takeover snub

AXA Asia Pacific is continuing to set new share price highs today on the back of yesterday’s announcement that fund flows and new life business grew strongly for the 12 m...

Financial planning

27 Jan

IFSA welcomes minister stance on super surcharge

The Investment and Financial Services Association has welcomed a suggestion by the Minister for Administration and Finance, Nick Minchin, that he is in favour of abolishi...

Financial planning

27 Jan

ASFA lobbies for clearer fee disclosure

The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia has called for further clarity in the Government’s proposed regulations covering fee disclosure relating to superannuati...

Financial planning

10 Dec

Snowball signs super deal

Queensland’s largest private sector superannuation fund, the $5 billion Sunsuper, has appointed listed financial services firm Snowball Group to provide education and fin...

Financial planning

08 Dec

Bridgeport management fail in buy-out bid

Bridgeport Advisers and Asset Managers’ senior staff have failed in their management buy-out bid for the Sydney-based advice firm after the company was sold yesterday to ...

Financial planning

08 Dec

Tower spin-off fuels Bridges CEO departure

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...

Financial planning

07 Dec

ING completes executive revamp

ING Australia has finalised the restructure of its distribution operations with the appointment today of Sealcorp director of distribution and sales Dan Powell into the n...

Financial planning

06 Dec

AXA advisers’ second bite of Discovery cherry

AXA Australia is to conduct a re-run over coming months of Project Discovery - a scheme launched last year where the group bought clients from established financial plann...