DEALER GROUP
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Professional Investment Services (PIS) has seen its plan to buy 50 per cent of a US dealer group fall through after negotiations faltered during the due diligence process...
Financial planning
The former managing director of Morningstar Australia, Graham Rich, has formed a new association for dealer group and master trust researchers....
Financial planning
Risk company Aon and financial services group iPac will launch a joint venture dealer group, Aon Wealth Management, which will also make use of the ipac platforms....
Financial planning
Loyalty is fast disappearing as advisers shop around for the best deals from fund managers and dealer groups. George Liondis reports....
Financial planning
It’s been three years since Money Management last profiled the Glenhurst Corporation and in that time much has changed. JOHN WILKINSON reports....
Financial planning
The controversy over the Commonwealth Bank’s contact of clients held by rival dealer groups has ballooned, with the group admitting last week that it wrote to 1000 client...
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Associated Planners is set to become the next Australian institution to make a move into the budding Asian financial services market, with the group preparing to sign off...
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Commonwealth Financial Solutions (CFS) and the Colonial Master Fund have suffered an embarrassing breach in the security of their files when a number of clients with the ...
Financial planning
In the bitter and largely ridiculous war that continues to wage between dealer groups and advisers over client ownership, some industry players could be accused of forget...
Financial planning
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP) has created an elite force of advisers within its 1600 planner strong network with those chosen for the new group said to be the best in th...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a permanent ban against a former financial adviser, John Michael Higgins, from providing financia...
Financial planning
The Elm Financial Services dealer group has struck a deal with the Adviser Ratings group that could see all of its advisers issued with a ranking from the newly launched ...
Financial planning
AUSTRALIAN Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) director Pauline Vamos has warned a high number of advisers are beginning to complain that dealer groups are misus...
Financial planning
THE FORMER managing director of Lynx Financial Services, Stuart Abley, has poached a number of the ING owned dealer group’s financial planners to launch a new planning de...
Financial planning
The ‘who owns the client’ debate refuses to lie down and the Privacy Act appears to be fuelling the fire. JULIE BENNETT reports....
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