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Financial planning

Dealer group Garrisons has added Colonial FirstChoice and Perpetual WealthFocus to its platform offering after conducting a review fuelled by adviser concern the Challeng...

Financial planning

Asgard will venture into the low-cost platform arena in April with the launch of its own mini-master trust - Elements - and further congest the rapidly burgeoning market ...

Funds management

As the financial services industry heads into a new year a backward glance at 2003 shows that while it may have been the Year of the Horse, it was also the Year of the Bo...

Financial planning

From almost a standing start, Capstone Financial Planning has grown rapidly to earn a place on our list of Fastest Growing Independent Dealers....

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager MFS Group is to target both boutique and large planner dealerships following the roll-out of a wholesale version of the MFS Premium Income Fund toda...

People & Products

Credit Suisse Asset Management, in the build-up to its master trust launch next month, has appointed a former BT Financial Group staffer to the role of platform developme...

Financial planning

The Sealcorp-owned advisory group Securitor will extend its services into estate planning and enhance the research it offers to advisers in the area of alternative invest...

Financial planning

InvestmentLink will now integrate the first full service wrap into its e-Portfolio service, with Netwealth’s wrap to be offered through the hub....

Financial planning

Budding software group Online Business Technologies (OBT) has signed its first major financial services client after aligning with Zurich Financial Services Australia to ...

Financial planning

Praemium Portfolio Services and CARM GPS have agreed to integrate their respective business platforms, to streamline and industrialise sales and business processes for fi...

Financial planning

The ING investment platform, Optimix Investment Management, has added four new managers to the panel for its Australian equities, fixed interest and cash offerings....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has signed an exclusive agreement with PM Capital to launch the first PM long-only equity fund available to the retail market....

Financial planning

An industry working party into soft dollar payments has called for the removal of a number of common forms of inducements in its recommendations announced today....

Financial planning

Sealcorp will not pitch its low cost platform, Elements, into the market on the basis of price, stating such a move would reduce it to the level of a commodity, according...

Financial planning

ING Australia will reverse the trend to move into retail with the launch of a wholesale version of its retail Tax Effective Income Trust tomorrow following the fund’s str...

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