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Financial planning

The consolidation trend within financial services looks set to continue as activity within the partly Zurich owned Lonsdale and Bridgeport groups pick up pace....

Financial planning

Since its outset, financial services dealer Investor Group Limited has blazed its way along an acquisition trail in the name of distribution expansion and business effici...

Financial planning

Chris Smith has left his post as national manager of multi-advisers with Zurich Financial Services to take on the national business manager position at partly owned Zuric...

Financial planning

Whispers within the financial services industry seem to suggest that financial planners have something to fear as the financial year ends. However, Kate Kachor discovers ...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services has begun operations of an new master trust administration service which will be on offer to dealer groups in an outsourcing arrangement....

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services has begun operations of a new master trust administration service which will be on offer to dealer groups in an outsourcing arrangement....

Financial planning

Prominent financial services figure Tony Ash has returned to Sydney as Zurich’s business operations manager, after spending nearly a year as Zurich Personal Financial Ser...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services has announced it will offer a web based investment product which offers superannuation and personal investments in the same package....

Financial planning

Growth funds have reversed the trend of the past year and outperformed value stocks by 2.1 per cent in January, according to statistics compiled by Intech....

Financial planning

Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

Financial planning

Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

Financial planning

BT Portfolio Services and Zurich Financial Services have bagged the lion’s share of Investor Group’s outsourcing of support services for its financial planning division, ...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services vice president of fixed interest and foreign exchange Anthony Michael says there are three main themes driving the Australian economic situatio...

People & Products

Former AMP corporate superannuation boss Grahame Evans has been recruited to head up Professional Investment Services’ recently formed consolidator group Professional Acc...

Financial planning

Financial service providers should not be complacent even though the pendulum has swung against dot com businesses according to Advent Software chair Stephanie DiMarco....

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

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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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