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The Commonwealth Bank will wrap up the integration of the Colonial State Bank planners in two weeks, combining the two planning forces into one with a total planning forc...
Financial planning
The focus on corporate superannuation is long running and is centred mainly on the complexities involved with branching into it. But as Nicole Szollos discovers it is now...
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...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...