Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 15771 - 15780 of 18335 results for "Plan"

Schroders announces new role and new product offering

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2006
Schroder Investment Management Australia (Schroders) has appointed a new head of product and marketing, ahead of plans to extend the group's current Aussie equity and income products. Stephen Kwa has filled the newly created position after previously ...

Mortgage brokers see clearly with Vivid

MLC has launched a licensee offer called 'Vivid', designed for mortgage brokers who want to break into finance planning and insurance advice. Under the licensee offer, MLC will provide training and support services so that mortgage brokers can give ...

Avant appoints director for S&S reporting system

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
Avant Solutions has appointed a former BT head of distribution to fill the role of director for the Brisbane based adviser solution group. Shane Hancock, formerly BT Financial Group's head of distribution superannuation solutions, will take on responsibility ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2006
The share market could open slightly stronger after blue-chip stocks on Wall Street rose marginally but a drop in oil prices affected energy stocks overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down 16 points ...

XPLAN scores again

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
In yet another step in the expansion of the XPLAN footprint, Australian Investment and Financial Planners (AI&FP) has announced it will be rolling out XPLAN to its entire group over the next three months. In announcing the partnership, AI&FP managing ...

Bravura expands in UK with Friends Provident

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
Financial services applications provider Bravura Solutions has partnered with listed UK group Friends Provident to provide wrap solutions for advisers. The applications are based on Bravura's existing Sonata Wrap system and similarly will provide an ...

Platinum re-brands to Sentry

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
Adviser group Platinum has been renamed Sentry Group on the back of a business and corporate restructure. Sentry Group managing director, Murray Hills, said the re-branding will help differentiate the group from other Platinum's in the market. The name ...

Head of TOWER moves on after 13 months

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
After just 13 months in the role, the head of TOWER Investment Australia has stepped down to take up the reins at Professional Investment Services (PIS). The resignation of Grahame Evans, who has led TOWER for just over a year, became public last night. ...

Credit Suisse pulls MasterWrap off the shelves

It was hinted at, talked about and it finally happened this month when investment group Credit Suisse announced its decision to close down its MasterWrap product. The group unveiled its MasterWrap almost two years ago to much fanfare and great expectations. ...

Super changes to cripple self-employed in retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
... mortgage or funding private school fees during their 40s and 50s. Part of their calculations, according to Murden, was a plan to significantly bump up their superannuation balances during their 50s once impending debts and parenting had been largely ...