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People & Products

Credit Suisse Asset Management, in the build-up to its master trust launch next month, has appointed a former BT Financial Group staffer to the role of platform developme...

Accounting

Boutique financial planning group Centrestone Wealth Advisory has struck a deal with the New South Wales arm of accounting firm Horwath allowing it to provide advice to t...

Editorial

AXA Asia Pacific’s recent acceptance of some harsh home truths now appear to be bearing fruit with the group announcing an almost doubling to $537 million of its after ta...

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch Australia is steadily bolstering its ranks with the appointment of 20 new staff across its various businesses in light of improving equity markets and a mor...

Financial planning

AXA Australia has unveiled a new set of performance guiding indicators - the AXA 6 - after completing its K5 transformation program in December 2003....

Financial planning

Integrated Tree Cropping (ITC) managing director Tony Jack has left the company days prior to its listing and has been temporary replaced by Futuris Corporation chief exe...

People & Products

ING Australia has filled its vacant chief financial officer position with the same executive the previous senior manager in the role replaced after transferring to ANZ Ba...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has signed an exclusive agreement with PM Capital to launch the first PM long-only equity fund available to the retail market....

Accounting

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) has appealed to the Australian Tax Office (ATO), calling on it to stem the tide of unqualified tax advice being...

Financial planning

Treasury Group has announced a management reshuffle that will see the group put a greater focus on managing and growing its existing boutique investment managers rather t...

People & Products

Australian Financial Services (AFS), which has been without a full-time managing director since August, has appointed insurance group OAMPS Financial Management chief exe...

Life/Risk

Tower Australia has revised the commission structures, product definitions, features and ease of gaining coverage across its risk insurance products and yesterday unveile...

Financial planning

ING Australia has completed revamping its sales and distribution management structure, which it flagged last year, with the aim of sharpening its focus on specific advise...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank has entered exclusive negotiations with Dutch bank ING Group over plans to acquire the latter’s Asian equity business – a variety of equity sales, trading ...

People & Products

AXA incumbent group chief executive officer Les Owen is likely to now focus on the group’s regional interests following chief financial officer Andy Penn being appointed ...

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