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People & Products

Perpetual Investments has found a new head for its young platform offering, four weeks after losing its inaugural head, Mark Papendieck, to Skandia....

Financial planning

The FPA’s Principles on Conflicts of Interest have been refined into four statements following feedback from its membership....

Editorial

Strong first-quarter growth in investment funds under management has motivated Perpetual Trustees Australia to forecast a 15 per cent rise in operating profit after tax f...

Financial planning

Strong first quarter results have Count Financial on track to achieving growth targets, with the company reporting an 11 per cent increase in funds under administration i...

Financial planning

Australian Unity members have taken the first steps in the demutualisation process by voting to allow the matter to be put to members....

Financial planning

Former Sydney City Councillor Kathryn Greiner will step down as chair of the FPA after one year at the top of the industry body....

Funds management

Negative returns across its hedge fund investments have left listed investment vehicle Pengana Managers over $1 million in the red....

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank today announced it had chalked up a 67 per cent rise in annual profits, making this the thirteenth year in a row the investment bank and funds manager has ...

Financial planning

Listed planning business DKN Financial Group says its part acquisition of financial planning firm Goldsborough Financial Services for $2.35 million last Friday maintains ...

Financial planning

Changing its name to Scarborough Equities Limited and selling Avcol Stockbroking to IWL for a profit, are two of the big resolutions that the board of Rivkin Financial Se...

Financial planning

The Australian Shareholders’ Association is fighting the Government’s proposed watering down of the ‘100-member rule’ for placing a resolution on the agenda of a company’...

Financial planning

OFM Investment Group is set to launch a program to educate independent advisers on the benefits and shortcomings of including bonds in client portfolios....

Life/Risk

Zurich Financial Services chief executive Tom Brown has been appointed to the board of the representative body for general insurers, the Insurance Council of Australia....

Financial planning

Queensland’s largest private sector superannuation fund, the $5 billion Sunsuper, has appointed listed financial services firm Snowball Group to provide education and fin...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s recent news that it was set to post a $2 million deficit, its first ever, for the 2003/2004 financial year is a curious turn of event...

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