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Financial planning

The Asgard master trust has taken out the top prize in this year’s Assirt Service Level awards after being voted the best investment platform in the country by financial ...

Financial planning

AM Corporation has brought in a consulting firm to help it decide on its next strategic direction which could include putting itself on the market for a suitable buyer....

Financial planning

Fifteen years is a long time to be doing the same thing but in August this year Money Management entered into its 15th year of providing consistent and regular coverage o...

Financial planning

My first assignment as a journo on Money Management in 1997 was to cover the launch of BT’s wrap platform. At the time, the industry hadn’t heard of wrap. Which was just ...

Financial planning

SOME of Australia’s leading master trust and wrap researchers have given their qualified endorsement to Westpac’s acquisition of the BT Wrap as part of its buyout of the ...

Funds management

Absolute Capital will list three retail hedge funds it launched in July on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), to be available to master trusts, wraps and retail investo...

Financial planning

Deakin Financial Services Group today announced a profit for the financial year ended 30 June 2002 of $31, 078....

Financial planning

IN A MOVE that reflects recent restructuring at Tower Limited, Tower Australia has announced it will use Powerlan and IBM technology to build an administrative system tha...

Financial planning

Master trusts and wraps continue to snatch significant sums of money in the funds management game, drawing $5.9 billion in net inflows in the June 2002 quarter. But fortu...

Financial planning

Indy Singh has built a business based on vision and a fax. BARBARA MESSER spoke with him about his vision and the contents of the fax....

Financial planning

While choice of funds makes its way back onto the agenda, TOM COLLINS says the issue of self interest must be tackled or the industry faces the possibility of further gov...

Financial planning

One of the pioneers of the master trust industry in Australia, Kevin Wyld, is planning the launch of a new wrap account service through the Beacon Investment Management S...

Financial planning

Financial planning executive Ross Johnston has left dealer group Bridges to embark on a new venture as an independent consultant....

Financial planning

Back-office suppliers are gearing up for some busy times ahead as planners seek new ways to cut costs. JOHN WILKINSON looks at how back-office services are re-engineering...

Financial planning

TECHNOLOGY firm Avanteos has enhanced its back-office wealth management software suite with a feature that helps financial planners generate personalised investment strat...

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