(March 29 -15:30 ET) – BRM Capital Corp. has changed its name to Cartier Partners Financial Group Inc. effective March 28.

Cartier Partners Financial Group Inc. owns six financial planning firms — Great Pacific Management group, The Investment Centre, Balanced Planning, Heritage Financial Services, Regal Capital Planners and the Courvie group — and a majority stake in Cartier Mutual Funds Inc.

According to Cartier, advisors at the planning firms will continue to work under the names of their existing firms until September 30. On October 1, the dealer firms will be legally consolidated, to form different operating subsidiaries: Cartier Partners Financial Services for mutual fund dealers; Cartier Partners Insurance Agency; and Cartier Partners Securities. Cartier Partners will be the trade name for all firms.

The Cartier firms have 4,000 advisors coast to coast, $18 billion in assets under management, and generated revenues from life products of $25 million during the 2000 fiscal year. Cartier Mutual Funds Inc. manages a family of multimanager mutual funds launched in January 1999. The funds have more than $235 million in assets under management.

The company says that Cartier Capital Limited Partnership, the majority owner of BRM, will also changing its name later this year. so that Cartier Partners Financial Group Inc. can enjoy the full benefit of the Cartier Partners name.

At the opening of trading on the Canadian Venture Exchange on March 30, the shares of the company will begin trading under the new name, Cartier Partners Financial Group Inc. (symbol CPF).