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ANZ has announced plans to implement an online merger and acquisition facility where financial planners can anonymously advertise that there is a practice for sale, while...

People & Products

FIIG Securities has appointed a new chief operating officer for its Brisbane office....

Financial planning

ANZ's wealth chief, John Van Der Wielen, resigns and search begins for replacement....

Financial planning

ANZ turns in a solid quarter, helped by an increased contribution from its wealth management division....

Financial planning

Financial planning practices looking to expand are finding it increasingly difficult to source funding, as banks tighten their lending criteria amid economic and regulato...

Superannuation

SMSF trustees assumed to be better in volatile times due to higher cash allocations and greater flexibility....

Financial planning

At a time when planners are struggling to source business loans, ANZ has provided its advisers with some relief by launching a new financial planner loan facility....

Financial planning

Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

Superannuation

Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

Financial planning

A former star ANZ financial planner has credited the support offered by AXA/AMP’s Discovery program as a key part of the reason she decided to leave the security of...

Financial planning

ANZ has launched a new life insurance product for over-50s that it claims will fill a gap in the market....

Financial planning

New Roy Morgan research has confirmed that up to half of planning clients are out of touch with their planners....

Policy & Regulation

OnePath has launched a program called FutureReady, which is aimed at preparing advisers for the post-Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) environment....

Financial planning

ING Investment Management's range of funds has been placed 'on hold' by ratings house Standard & Poor's Fund Services, following yesterday's announcement that ING has rea...

Editorial

The share prices of Australia’s major publicly listed financial planning groups have been trending down for most of the past 14 months and, as Mike Taylor reports, at lea...

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