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Colonial First State (CFS) chief executive John Pearce became the latest addition to the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) board of directors after bei...

Major banks will have to seriously rethink their strategies following disappointing earnings from their wealth management arms. Lisa Bowman reports....

Margin lending is not the only way to get into gearing. Philip McLean looks at instalments as an alternative....

The corporate superannuation market might be shrinking but opportunities for advisers still abound. Craig Phillips reports....

With only five growth-oriented investment managers ending the financial year in positive territory the median likewise focused superannuation fund has returned -2 per cen...

BT Financial Group has replaced Principal Global Investors (PGI) as investment manager for its more than $500 million of listed property trust assets by bringing the mana...

Associated Planners Financial Services and Total Super have formed a self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) support alliance they say will strengthen their approach in t...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned former financial adviser David Paul Mudge from acting as a representative of a securiti...

Former Burnie-based insurance agent and financial adviser Joachim Prehn, who had been sentenced to six years jail last year by the Supreme Court of Tasmania, has successf...

Deutsche Asset Management has appointed Peter Cashmore as senior portfolio manager for the Deutsche Paladin Property Securities team....

Financial services group Challenger International and Kerry Packer’s CPH Investment Corp have officially combined in a $1.1 billion merger....

Tower Limited has opted for what it deems a “fairer” and more “certain” recapitalisation proposal after abandoning the option proposed by Guinness Peat Group in favour of...

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