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Former Perth Chapter chairman Julie Matheson has responded to her removal from the position by the Financial Planning Association’s national board last week by announcing...

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager Contango is paying a special dividend for its ASX-listed MicroCap fund....

Financial planning

The Financial Industry Complaints Service has undertaken to respond to concerted criticism from within and without the financial services industry over its performance an...

Editorial

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Financial planning

Fund manager Hunter Hall International has sought to lock in its investment team by implementing an equity plan capable of seeing the portfolio managers emerge with more ...

Superannuation

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Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, John Laker, has revealed that as many as 30 per cent of the financial institutions supervised by APRA have...

Financial planning

Tower Australia Limited is to split from Tower New Zealand, with the Board recommending a geographic separation of the two businesses....

Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Jeffrey Lucy, has reiterated that it will not be imposing its views with respect to the fee-for-serv...

People & Products

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings has announced its group chief executive Les Owen will leave the financial services firm at the end of 2006 for personal and family reasons....

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning’s director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich has stepped aside as chairman of the FPA’s professional standards and ethics committee while ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank has revealed it is currently in discussions with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority with a view to changing the application of some banking reg...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank has sought to use its annual general meeting to defend its remuneration strategy for senior executives....

Financial planning

The value of a Parliamentary Inquiry, the terms of reference of which appear to favour retail superannuation funds over their industry counterparts, is being questioned b...

Financial planning

Rapid development in the listed infrastructure and utilities sector in recent years has prompted Treasury Group to develop a funds management business specialising in the...

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