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YBR continues aggressive expansion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
Wealth management company Yellow Brick Road has confirmed an increase of 112% in branch-generated revenue to $3.12 million on the back of signing approximately 35 new branches over the past six months. The market update released to the ASX today posts ...

MLC MasterKey gives advisers more investment options

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... MLC MasterKey said the additions were in response to adviser demand for a greater selection of investment options. "Our focus is on providing advisers with the necessary investment solutions to meet their clients' needs and to help them to grow and protect ...

Super funds call key challenges

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... chair of Qantas Super and CIE. "With its new powers to set prudential standards, APRA's role will be to rigorously enforce a focus on quality and to ensure the financial promise funds make to their members is met. Trustees must be able to clearly define ...

New St George and Westpac New Zealand CEOs appointed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
Rob Chapman is stepping down as chief executive of the St George Banking Group to be replaced by Westpac New Zealand boss George Frazis, with senior Westpac executive Peter Clare taking over in New Zealand. Chapman has been at the helm of St George ...

Ibbotson appoints new head of managed account solutions

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... recently appointed Matthew Esler as Head of Adviser Services and James Foot as Investment Consultant to support the company's focus on retail implemented investment consulting and advice services. Esler worked previously with Holland at Advance, and ...

Forum: Women Driving Change

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
Gender quotas may be an uncomfortable prospect for the current generation, but they offer potential to fast track the remedy of gender imbalance in senior corporate positions for subsequent generations. That was a key message derived from yesterday's ...

Franklin Templeton plans retail growth

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... "Probably the biggest overriding factor that contains that exposure is the fact that within one of the investment criteria we focus on, which is quality, we are very cognisant of corporate governance issues, so we have shied away from certain countries ...

MLC Insurance gets upgraded

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
MLC Insurance and MLC Insurance (Super) have both received further upgrades to their product line up. As part of the product upgrade from MLC, the two insurance offers have received five new features including a 12 month Life Cover Buy Back option which ...

Mason Stevens buys 2020 Funds Management

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... to create a new entity, One Capital Management. Mason Stevens and 2020 Funds Management product capabilities, with a new focus on the SMSF market, will be merged under a new brand, One Capital Asset Management, and include a range of asset classes including ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... these credit rating agencies newly developed habit of insinuating themselves whenever there's a summit going on aside and focus on the summit itself. Yes, there was one last week. European Union leaders met at their Council HQ in Brussels last Friday ...