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State Street Australia has won custody rights to the unit trust business of wholesale group Hopkins Partners Funds Management (HPFM)....

Financial planning

After months of wrangling, Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) has launched a prospectus to list in October and raise $1.4 million, nearly 12 months after the initial p...

Financial planning

In another sign that financial planning at the Big Five accounting firms is undergoing a major shakeup, a group of advisers, headed by Deloitte Financial Services directo...

Financial planning

Three years ago, they were a group of former IT and research execu-tives from Lonsdale and IOOF with an idea....

Financial planning

A new joint venture between WA-based Precedent Financial Services and BankWest will see funds under advice for the venture top $1.2 bil-lion....

Financial planning

There has been considerable publicity surrounding the state of the lawyers' private mortgage industry. Much of the attention has focused on two issues. Firstly, the loss...

Financial planning

The perception that young investors have no cash and adopt a spend-spend attitude is distorted, according to Angus Beattie, director of Mercantile Mutual's new dollars.co...

Financial planning

Financial planners who have UK migrants on their books have been warned to take special care with their advice or face potential liti-gation in the future....

Financial planning

Financial planning group Hampel Financial & Insurance Services has joined the Associated Planners camp in South Australia....

Financial planning

Financial planners may have a far higher success rate than most other small businesses, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Zilla Efrat asks some of the ind...

Financial planning

Stepping out of a practice that one has spent a life time building up – and getting the highest return for it - is a complex process....

Financial planning

The float of Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) is scheduled for late September or early October now that an agreement has been reached between all the shareholders of...

Financial planning

Victorian-based financial planning firm CIS Financial Services has landed its biggest single client account following Asgard’s recent successful tender to provide its ser...

Financial planning

With less than a month in the managing director seat, Garry Mulcahy has already set his sights on new opportunities for the FlexiPlan master trust operations. Samantha Wa...

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