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ASIC takes action against ex-GIO directors...
Financial planning
Former Financial Planning Association chairman and ING financial planning executive Wes McMaster has launched Australia’s first buyer and seller of financial planning bus...
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....
Life/Risk
Forget any of the troubles caused by HIH on the personal indemnity insurance game. HIH may have gone down, but Nick Bruining still has to fill out the paperwork for his P...
Financial planning
OAMPS Insurance Brokers executive director Kingsley Lamont has resigned from the group’s board and will not act as a director for the next three years....
Financial planning
Former Financial Wisdom financial planner Robyn Ann-Carrolle Cochrane has been sentenced to a four-year jail term with a non-parole period of two years....
Financial planning
Financial Planning Group Chapel Road has lost more than half of its 39 proper authority holders after its licence was revoked by the Australian Securities and Investment ...
People & Products
Well known industry figure John Godfrey will become the chairman of Tower’s new dealer group, Goldridge....
Financial planning
Securities dealer Chapel Road has resumed operations following the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) agreement to a conditional stay of its dealer...
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
Advance Funds Management chief investment officer Dr Stephen Lam has scored the top post in the group, following the retirement of managing director Malcolm Robertson....
Financial planning
Prime Minister John Howard has agreed to deliver a verdict on the issue of Alienation of Personal Services Income (APSI) within the next three weeks....
Financial planning
Wattle Group investment scheme founder Geoffrey Robert Dexter has received a 10-year jail sentence for his part in the investment scam that rocked the investment industry...
Financial planning
It is a dealer principle’s worst nightmare. A licence revoke and 39 proper authority holders across 29 offices shut down from daily operations. Last week, securities dea...
Financial planning
Fund managers are divided over whether they should help the Government fund the Office of the Retirement Commissioner....
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