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Financial planning

The part sale of Professional Investment Services (PIS) is beginning to cast aspersions on the future of the country’s other large independent dealer group, Count Financi...

Financial planning

You would think Barry Lambert has flown the flag of independence boldly and proudly enough over the past few years to well and truly bury any question he might consider s...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has moved swiftly to address service level concerns of dealer groups using its newly acquired Symetry platform as the bank attempts to ...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has moved swiftly to address service level concerns of dealer groups using its newly acquired Symetry platform as the bank attempts to ...

Editorial

Count Financial reported a better than anticipated $4.99 million half year after tax profit today, and immediately upscaled its forecasts for the remainder of the year....

Financial planning

Funds being allocated to superannuation and other forms of retirement incomes are continuing to grow strongly according to the latest data produced by research house Dexx...

Financial planning

The financial planning arm of the HSBC bank has signed the Aviva-owned Navigator master trust as one of only three preferred platforms for its advisers....

Financial planning

A new set of guidelines on conflicts of interest which will impose tougher requirements on advisers than those introduced by the Australian Securities and Investment Comm...

Financial planning

Investments in life insurance grew by 11 per cent over the year to September 2004 according to the latest statistics from Melbourne based research group Plan For Life....

Financial planning

Most fund managers would view the loss of near on $2 billion in investment mandates as a serious blow to their portfolio management capability egos, not to mention the li...

People & Products

Financial planning dealer firm Mawson Group chief executive Les mace has been appointed to head up subsidiary life adviser dealer group Aurora Financial Planning, which k...

Financial planning

Advance Asset Management has turned to boutiques to provide the investment expertise in its new small companies fund after its existing fund in the sector was partly clos...

Financial planning

Citigroup / Citicorp and National / MLC Group have emerged as the big winners in retail net funds flow for the September 2004 quarter, according to the Assirt Research Ma...

Financial planning

Deakin Financial Services Group has amassed a war chest of $6 million, which it plans to use on acquisitions to grow its business in an attempt to compete with much bigge...

Financial planning

Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....

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