IOOF

Financial planning

IOOF chief Chris Kelaher says the company remains acquisitive, describing its play for AXA’s North as opportunistic, not strategic....

Life/Risk

Introducing an additional insurer – Asteron – on its FirstChoice platform may make Colonial First State a leader, but it appears to be short of followers at p...

Editorial

Nobody should be terribly surprised that AMP turned suddenly coy in its desire to acquire AXA Asia Pacific. It was all part of a renewed corporate mating ritual....

Financial planning

With few regulatory hurdles in the way, AMP is expected to announce a renewed bid for AXA AP....

Financial planning

The ACCC has maintained its initial opposition to NAB's acquisition of AXA Asia Pacific....

Financial planning

AMP chief executive Craig Dunn has warned against what he sees will be permanent damage to competition in the wealth management market if National Australia Bank’s ...

Editorial

The bedding down of IOOF’s merger with AWM and its acquisition of Skandia have paid dividends for the group in the form of a record profit....

Financial planning

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s rationale for blocking the National Australia Bank (NAB) bid for AXA Asia Pacific, and the cost to NAB of handing the...

Financial planning

NAB's determination to acquire AXA Asia Pacific reflects not only the potential threat posed by a larger and more aggressive AMP but also, as Mike Taylor reports, a degre...

Financial planning

AXA’s European parent has agreed to settle in and wait for the outcome of the ACCC’s consideration of NAB’s revised offer....

Financial planning

NAB offers divestiture of North to IOOF to secure acquisition of AXA....

People & Products

IOOF has announced the appointment of Rory Toal and Leah Waldie as the company's new Southern and Northern region managers, respectively. They will commence their new rol...

Financial planning

IOOF's Pursuit platform has broken the dominance enjoyed by Colonial First State in the Wealth Insights Platform Service Level Survey....

Tools & guides

In the event of a successful challenge to a client's estate, traditional strategies preventing assets falling into the estate and being distributed against the client's w...

Funds management

IOOF has further improved on its Pursuit Select platform with the addition of domestic and international ETFs....

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