FINANCIAL PLANNING

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The $55 million Macquarie Small Companies Fund has been placed on hold by ratings-house Lonsec following the resignation of small cap portfolio manager Darryl Paul late l...

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Australian boutique fund manager Select Asset Management has announced a joint venture with European hedge fund manager Aspect Capital to increase its absolute return foc...

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Sealcorp has rounded out its Asgard platform offering with the addition of superannuation and pensions to its wrap account to sit alongside the investment options introdu...

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JBWere and Goldman Sachs today formalised the merging of their Australian and New Zealand operations in a deal which sees the latter take a 45 per cent stake in the Melbo...

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Industry research house Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) has signed an agreement with corporate credit ratings agency Rapid Ratings to provide it with credit ratings on the i...

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The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is expected to rule against disclosure of commissions on risk products when it tables its final r...

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More than one third of Stockford principals have agreed to buy their businesses back from the group’s administrator, after the troubled accounting and financial planning ...

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Sealcorp has recently approved some changes to the investment menu of its master trust and wrap platform Asgard, including splitting off hedge funds, absolute return fund...

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The Investor Group dealership has struck a deal with the administrators of the troubled Stockford group to buy one of the company’s Melbourne based financial planning bus...

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The credibility of the recent report into the quality of financial planning advice by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consu...

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The Assure master trust is set to close after AXA announced it will consolidate all of its platforms into Summit as part of its single-platform strategy....

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Small dealer groups are back on the agenda as members of three bodies representing small planning groups have agreed to meet to discuss the creation of a national executi...

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