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BT Group profits rise $29 million

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
BT Financial Group's profits rose by 14 per cent to $243 million in the six months to March - a stellar result driven by an improvement in the funds management business, Westpac Group said today. The wealth management firm's $29 million rise in economic ...

Securitor to grow planner network

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... while rolling out new initiatives to improve the efficiency of its existing businesses. Securitor, owned by BT Financial Group, currently has close to 500 planners and 240 practices within its network. As the planning industry undergoes change in the ...

Dealer groups miss commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... of the banning of life insurance commissions within superannuation funds. MLC & NAB Wealth, AMP and AXA, and BT Financial Group said they were happy the policy initiative would remove perceived conflict of interest. But all three groups said they were ...

Licensee tests offer planners protection

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... planners but makes little difference to the existing set-up, according to Matthew Englund, head of dealer groups, BT Financial Group. "It just maintains the same structure and regime as we have today when the licensee is held responsible for the advice ...

ANZ Wealth head joins FSC

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... members including Craig Meller, managing director, AMP Financial Services and Brad Cooper, chief executive, BT Financial Group. Van Der Wielen's previous roles include managing director at Clerical Medical, Halifax Life and European Financial Services ...

Industry firms create super group

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... super rollovers. The Affiliation of Superannuation Practitioners is made up of representatives from AAS, AMP, BT Financial Group, Colonial First State, MLC, Pilar and Superpartners and will meet fortnightly to work on the delivery of SuperStream initiatives. ...

Keep advice a simple business: BTFG

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... simplicity of the advice business is the key to surviving FOFA, according to Mark Spiers, general manager of advice, BT Financial Group. Adviser are anxious around the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) but Spiers said despite this that is important for ...

Wingate profits from Everest stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
Fund manager Wingate Direct Investments has sold its 19.9 per cent investment in Everest Financial Group after receiving an anonymous bid for its stake, gaining 32 per cent on its original investment. The investment manager offloaded its stake in Everest ...

Super fund signals future role in govt policy

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... largest super fund. It is also the sixth largest offeror of superannuation services behind NAB/MLC, Westpac/BT Financial Group, NSW Government, AMP and Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State. "The superannuation industry in Australia is largely a product ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... these distributive markets and the underlying FUM manufacturing market which grew only one per cent. Westpac's BT Financial group is Australia's leading platform player with $90 billion FUA or 22.8 per cent of the market, closely followed by NAB's MLC ...