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Funds management

Some 61% of companies which have reported their first-half results have seen their profits rise compared to 36% in the previous half....

Financial planning

The board and shareholders of AMP Limited are being made patently aware that separating the company’s component parts is a dangerous strategy. ...

Financial planning

AMP Limited bidder Ares has dropped its bid for 100% of the company and is now only interested in AMP Capital leading AMP to declare that the future of its wealth busines...

Superannuation

Ten superannuation funds experienced outflows in excess of a billion dollars as a result of the Government’s COVID-19 hardship superannuation early release regime, with i...

Funds management

If the hedge funds were fundamentally right and the stocks go down, the day traders will get very badly burned, according to one financial commentator....

Financial planning

The Federal Court has ordered that AMP provide key documents around its buyer of last resort decision-making as part of the discovery process attaching to the class actio...

People & Products

Robert Coulter has been appointed as APAC business development director and will lead the firm’s distribution partnerships in the region....

Superannuation

New data has emerged suggesting as many as 5% of early release superannuation applicants entirely emptied their accounts while just 10 superannuation funds paid around 68...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning has lost its status as the single biggest financial planning group in Australia by adviser number, according to HFS Consulting’s data from 31 Decem...

Funds management

Australian shares are likely to be outperformers and can return around 12% this year compared to 8% for global shares, according to AMP Capital....

Superannuation

Following the departure of Lara Bourguignon, AMP’s SuperConcepts has appointed Grant Christensen as interim chief executive. ...

Financial planning

Over 2,170 roles were shed during the first six months of the year, and AMP Financial Planning saw the largest departure of 315 roles, according to data. ...

People & Products

Former Sunsuper chief executive, Scott Hartley, has been appointed the new chief executive of AMP Australia reporting to Francesco De Ferrari....

Financial planning

AMP financial advisers are continuing to press for Parliamentary scrutiny of AMP’s handling of buyer of last resort arrangements, particularly compliance-based exit audit...

Financial planning

The number of actual advisers has dropped through the 21,000 barrier this week, with the loss of a further 31 advisers, according to HFS Consulting’s data....

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