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Financial planning

Chifley Financial Services has undergone a restructure under its new owners which has resulted in the departure of the financial planning general manager Peter Dawson....

People & Products

HSBC Asset Management Australia has taken on former Wells Capital Management executive vice president Rick Villars as its new head of retail, in a move designed to streng...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services Australia former chief operating officer John Butler has become chief executive officer (CEO) effective immediately, following the decision by f...

Financial planning

Ipac Securities has acquired the Melbourne-based Financial Resources Group (FRG), its second financial planning group acquisition in less than a month....

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and Colonial First State have rolled their respective asset management divisions into one despite earlier assurances that such a move would no...

Financial planning

The term retail means less now than what it did five years ago....

Financial planning

Former Insurance Australia Group chief general manger sales and marketing, Pierre Fenech has joined the Australian Retirement Income Streams Association (ARISA) as its ne...

Financial planning

Former Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief execuitve officer Jock Rankin, 52, died yesterday morning after a long battle with cancer....

Financial planning

Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...

Financial planning

MLC will use intermediaries to distribute MLC Corporate Solutions rather than going direct to market as it has done in the past....

Financial planning

UBS Asset Management (UBSAM) has started the new year on a positive note after research house Assirt handed the group a solid overall rating and awarded its Australian eq...

Financial planning

Ausmaq’s development of its spoke-and-hub solution for IFSA’s MfundEC standard will not happen unless it wins support from more than 50 per cent of the financial services...

Financial planning

After just three months in the number two job, UBS Asset Management has promoted Australian John Fraser to the position of global chief executive officer....

People & Products

Commonwealth Bank senior executive Gail Kelly has scored the chief executive officer role at St George Bank, starting early next year....

Financial planning

Online broker TD Waterhouse is set to expand its customer base when it picks up the customer accounts of Charles Schwab’s ailing Australian business in mid January....

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