WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

Tower Limited has abandoned plans to sell its personal and corporate trustee businesses in Australia and New Zealand and plans to use them as part of a growth strategy, c...

Funds management

St George Group today appointed Nick Basile to the new position of head of investments and insurance in an attempt to drive the group’s wealth management division forward...

People & Products

BT Funds Management has today appointed US based Putnam Investments to manage its $5 billion international share portfolio....

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 ...

Financial planning

The Westpac Bank’s group executive of wealth management, David Clarke, has given the Count Financial group his assurance he will not attempt to poach any Count clients in...

Financial planning

AXA’s latest results for the six months to the end of June this year show a 5 per cent improvement on the corresponding period last year, with an after-tax profit of $130...

People & Products

The Westpac Bank has confirmed today that it will pay $900 million to buy the BT Financial Group from its US parent, the Principal Financial Group, in a move that will se...

Funds management

The Westpac Bank has agreed to pay $36 million to buy a 51 per cent stake in specialist alternative asset manager, Hastings Funds Management....

Financial planning

Tower Limited group chief operating executive Ken Boag will leave the group at the end of next week after the announcement last week that the group’s wealth management an...

Financial planning

Western Australian credit unions, State West and Health Credit, will merge their financial planning arms as part of a wider merger of the two groups....

Funds management

The funds management and banking sectors have been in an acquisition frenzy during the past two years, fulfilling the industry prophecy of rationalisation. FIONA MOORE ta...

Financial planning

MLC has dedicated 150 of its staff to formulate the design of a project to utilise the $200 million committed to the group’s wealth management operations by National Aust...

Financial planning

HISTORY does not repeat itself. Business cycles, market trends and business opportunities, if missed 10 years ago, do not represent themselves for a second bite of the ch...

Financial planning

The Tower group has announced it will make a strategic exit from the life insurance market in China in order to concentrate on its Australian wealth management operations...

Financial planning

Eighty-four per cent of Australians earning over $50,000 per year do not have a formal investment plan for the future, with 50 per cent relying on financial media and soc...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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