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Deep-value investment group Tyndall Investment Management has been reassured of its future in the market after recently listed parent Promina gave its full support to an ...

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A Sydney-based planner has been banished form the industry for two years following the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) uncovering a number of clie...

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Post-retirement investors are seeking higher yielding products and strategies to better manage allocated pensions during both growth and bear markets, according to a poll...

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Merrill Lynch’s private client division is undergoing its biggest campaign in several years to sign up advisers as the group embarks on a notable expansion of the high-ne...

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ABN Amro yesterday completed taking a 50 per cent stake in alternative investment firm Absolute Capital four months after the two groups entered into exclusive talks to f...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put institutions with aligned advisers on notice after a recent surveillance project found that commission...

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ING-owned platform Optimix Investment Management has added four international investment firms to its manager line-up and follows a tweak of its Australian equity manager...

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Investor Group is continuing its acquisitive expansion push after agreeing in principle to buy specialist financial planning firm Investor Care in a move that adds to the...

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Securitor has signed up another partner, with the financial planning arm of accounting firm Bentleys MRI Sydney replacing its former dealer services arrangements previous...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has confirmed long running speculation regarding its education progam by ceasing to offer education to members directly, and will...

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Challenger Financial Services Group (CFSG) today announced its takeover of dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) for $100 million in a deal that will...

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How a rating house conducts its research has been a contentious issue for some time, but as Jason Spits writes, fund managers are still seeking an open and wide-ranging p...

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