Tower Trust is restructuring its senior management ranks following its acquisition of IOOF’s trustee business and the merger of Tower’s Australian and New Zealand trustee...
Greg Kirk has taken over the helm at AMP Financial planning, following the promotion of incumbent Steve Helmich in August....
Former FPA chairman Wes McMaster has become the first financial planner in Australia to be anointed a professor....
Perpetual Trustees will expand its corporate trust business after purchasing AXA Trustees for $24 million....
Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark says the Government will push on with plans to establish a dedicated superannuation fund despite no guarantee of majority support...
When the National bought MLC earlier this year, LendLease Financial Planning had to look for a new name – and fast. After some angst, the group took on the handle “Apoge...
Prominent financial services industry figure Kate Mulligan has taken on the role of director of marketing with Sealcorp....
The AMP Asset Management brand has now officially disappeared from the Australian market....
Skandia doesn’t do manufacturing and it doesn’t do retailing. Stuart Engel discovers exactly what it is the Swedish based financial services giant intends to do in Austra...
There has been a rush of financial services groups launching products that allow investors in Telstra II instalment receipts to defer their final payment. Macquarie Bank ...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...