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Financial planning

Count Financial Limited managing director Barry Lambert has hit back at claims that Count’s recent share price rally occurred due to a bidding war between Westpac and CPH...

Superannuation

The majority of older working Australians have given little or no thought to planning for retirement according to a Newspoll survey commissioned by the Commonwealth Bank....

Financial planning

Colonial First State (CFS) has signed IOOF retail funds management general manager Richard Nunn to the general manager distribution role recently vacated by Michael Cant....

Financial planning

Major banks will have to seriously rethink their strategies following disappointing earnings from their wealth management arms. Lisa Bowman reports....

People & Products

Wilson HTM Investment Group has appointed former Commonwealth Bank of Australia executive, Neil Schafer, as its new managing director, with incumbent group head Steven Wi...

Financial planning

First State Investments has made the first official move to establish a presence in China, with its Chinese funds management venture lodging an application with the Chine...

Financial planning

Tower Australia has reinforced its move back into the risk insurance side of the industry with the appointment of two senior executives in the group’s sales and distribut...

Financial planning

Targeting ethnic markets has yielded dividends for some planners, but, as Ben Abbott writes, the days of segmenting clients by cultural background may be coming to an end...

Financial planning

Ex-head of financial services at St George Bank, Paul Kofod, will join Commonwealth Bank as Head of Private Banking....

Rate the raters

Whichever way you cut the data, van Eyk Research beats the other research houses hands down. Julie Bennett reports....

Financial planning

The recent ACA/ASIC survey was particularly scathing of the quality of financial planning advice provided by large distributors. George Liondis investigates....

Financial planning

The issue of ownership is back on the agenda after recent industry surveys but, as Jason Spits reports, the more things change, the more they stay the same....

People & Products

Suncorp Metway has poached another Commonwealth Bank executive to fill one of its top jobs, this time the position of head of wealth management....

Financial planning

The head of retail distribution at Colonial First State, Paul van Rooyen, has left the group after only three months in the role....

Financial planning

Assirt has downgraded Colonial First State’s (CFS) business management rating from ‘Strong’ to ‘Competent’ on the back of a spate of recent departures from the group....

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