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Financial planning

AMP is heading for its second UK purchase in less than a month after it confirmed discussions to buy UK based online financial information service Interactive Investor In...

People & Products

High profile technical strategist Andrew Lowe has left AMP to join the technical team at ING, heading up technical investment strategy for its funds management business....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth only narrowly missed out from pipping National from the top of the table for total retail assets under management, the latest Assirt Market Share Report ...

Financial planning

The message repeated throughout the AMP annual general meeting today was that while global economies are showing weaknesses, AMP’s outlook for 2001 was positive....

Financial planning

AMP has flagged Japan and India as two ports of Asia where it will beef up its financial services presence through new partnerships with local players....

Financial planning

Master trusts will continue their meteoric rise over the next five years, growing faster than any other investment vehicle....

Financial planning

Three of WM Mercer’s biggest hitters will leave the group and set up operations under the Hillross banner....

Financial planning

Tyndall has turned around its compliance process in the wake of an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investment Commissions (ASIC) prompted by the discovery ...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services has written to clients of banned advisers Andy Pal and Anthony Howarth to invite them to consider whether they can claim for lost money from inappr...

Policy & Regulation

Income securities, which exploded onto the market in 1999, have received a knock back from the tax office which says the securities should not be treated as debt for inco...

Financial planning

Halifax is expected to buy Britain troubled Equitable Life later today, having beat off a last-minute bid from GE Capital....

Financial planning

Leading Australian insurer, AMP has pulled out of talks to buy troubled European mutual life assurer Equitable Life....

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has merged two divisions and placed Gavin Gunning as head of the newly formed financial services ratings group for Australia and New Zealand....

Financial planning

Armstrong Jones has formed an alliance with British firm, Edinburgh Fund Managers, to launch a range of UK-based funds in New Zealand....

Financial planning

More than 70 financial adviser practices have signed up franchise agreements with the Mawson Securities since the group launched in July....

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