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Financial planning

Commonwealth Investment Management (CIM) has indicated it will continue to create investment products and develop distribution despite a trend by a number of its competit...

Financial planning

UK-based Prudential has set the consolidation ball rolling in 2001 with the year’s biggest acquisition to date, snapping up US-based American General Corporation for abou...

Financial planning

Fund managers have woken up to the benefits of the Internet and are finally building up traffic to their Web sites. ...

Financial planning

BT Funds Management may have fallen by the wayside in the Australia equity stakes last year, but the group has continued to bring in large chunks of retail funds. ...

Financial planning

The past five years will certainly remembered by financial services historians as the time our big institutions threw off the shackles of their mutual structures and demu...

Financial planning

Supplying the right financial services to each client is not always a simple task, especially when the client base numbers in the millions. Jason Spits looks at how the C...

Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has set up a master trust service for its member groups. ...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has begun the integration of Colonial’s 800 financial advisers into its structure by marrying both groups’ bank-based planning operations....

Financial planning

ASX Perpetual Registrars Ltd (APRL) has beaten its chief rival Computershare for the registry services for the combined group formed by the merger of Commonwealth Bank an...

Financial planning

Local financial services software producer, Classic Solutions is set to expand operations into the US market after a hefty injection of venture capital....

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank has become one of the first local financial services providers to provide screen scraping facilities with the rollout of a website to customers on the week...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will pay NZ$560 million to buy out the remaining quarter share of the ASB Bank in New Zealand....

Editorial

There are nearly 7,000 managed funds vying for the hard earned savings of Australian investors. Only a few ever reach the dizzying heights of becoming mega funds. Kate Ka...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has looked to its New Zealand subsidiary, ASB Bank, for its new head of International Financial Services (IFS)....

Financial planning

Challenger International has gone a recruitment spree, luring industry notables Jamie Kelly away from a 12 year career with Mercantile Mutual and Sharon Knightley from tw...

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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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