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The two people who foundered Sovereign Assurance in 1981, Ian Hendry and Chris Coon, have both announced their retirements from the company. Both men plan to leave at the...

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Norwich Union’s Navigator master trust has taken out the top honour in the premier service level awards for retail financial services....

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Sealcorp has outsourced the technical information service component of its adviserNet service to Deutsche Bank....

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Former UBS Asset Management (UBSAM) Australian managing director John Fraser has been promoted to one of the top two roles within the financial services behemoth....

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ING has made moves into the socially responsible investing (SRI) market with the launch of two wholesale funds which are being made available to the retail market through...

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BT Financial Group’s uneasy relationship with master trusts and wraps has taken another turn with news it is to offer its wrap service directly to advisers for the first ...

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Adelaide based retail master trust and wrap account provider, Symetry, has launched a new series of fund-of-funds investment products....

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The Australian and Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued stop orders on three separate fund managers....

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It is a phrase that will no doubt end up lost in the cluttered, oversized pile of clichés – that Australian investors are Internet savvy. However, regardless of its clich...

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Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

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Four years is a long time in the rapidly changing retail financial services business. But while developments have come thick and fast in my four years at Money Management...

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