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Financial planning

Global Banking and Securities Transactions (GBST) has launched a low cost platform called Front Office and is offering it to adviserd with pricing set at $100....

Financial planning

AMP has reshuffled its senior management team following the departure of chief financial officer Marc de Cure, who leaves the company in a few months after a brief transi...

Financial planning

Westpac’s acquisition of BT Financial Group should be a minor boon to investors with BT Funds Management (BTFM), but investors at Sagitta Wealth Management could face a p...

Financial planning

OFM Investment Group has reported higher than expected year-end net profits, which were 9.2 per cent higher than forecast when the group listed on the Australian Stock Ex...

Financial planning

Michael Parsons has stepped down as chief executive officer of Invesco Australia, citing personal reasons as the driving force behind his decision to leave the company....

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has not ruled out the possibility of the combined National Australia/MLC group being required to pay further c...

Editorial

MLC has announced that it will compensate investors in its superannuation products who suffered a loss in the value of their investment when they were transferred from si...

Financial planning

THE uptake of individual managed accounts (IMAs) in Australia will be wholly dependent on whether clients think they are a good investment vehicle, according to Avanteos ...

Financial planning

Growing a business by 40 per cent per annum over the past four years is by anybody’s measure, an impressive result. It is a result that Bill O’Sullivan, chief executive o...

Financial planning

TECHNOLOGY firm Avanteos has enhanced its back-office wealth management software suite with a feature that helps financial planners generate personalised investment strat...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar has given Platinum Asset Management a two out of five business and management strength rating, citing the manager’s track record of solid inter...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based Crewe Consulting has launched an expansion program and re-branded the dealer group to Certainty Financial....

Financial planning

The wealth management group formed by Westpac’s acquisition of Rothshild Australia Asset Management (RAAM) will be known as Sagitta Wealth Management Limited....

Financial planning

ASSIRT and Asgard will form a closer relationship in the future following the appointment of Caroline Saunders to oversee Assirt’s funds research business in addition to ...

Funds management

WHILE many planners shy away from estate planning, Tynan MacKenzie believes it should not be overlooked, but rather integrated into ongoing business processes....

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