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Financial planning

24 Nov

Top 10 Most Influential: Tom Collins

If Tom Collins, principal of the Tom Collins Consultancy, has been one of the most influential players through 2003 it is probably because the industry has, finally, come...

Financial planning

24 Nov

Top 10 Most Influential: Ken Breakspear

Ken Breakspear no doubt sees some irony in the fact that he has received a nomination for Money Management’s list of Most Influential People for the third year running, i...

Financial planning

24 Nov

Top 10 Most Influential: Pauline Vamos

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) Pauline Vamos says her inclusion in this year’s Money Management Top 10 Most Influential list is a reflectio...

Financial planning

24 Nov

Top 10 Most Influential: Nick Sherry

It is little surprise the Opposition spokesman on retirement incomes, Senator Nick Sherry, made it to the Money Management Most Influential list, given the ongoing debate...

Financial planning

21 Nov

State of the nations: Australia vs New Zealand

How well do the Australian and New Zealand life insurance markets stack up against each other? Mike Taylor investigates....

Financial planning

21 Nov

Shares record best quarter for a decade

The good times appear to be rolling again for Australian and international share managers according to the latest data released by InTech Financial Services....

Life/Risk

20 Nov

Disablement claims top spot in insurance costs

When it comes to claims, the most cases assessed relate to disability income, and as Mike Taylor reports, it is an increasing trend....

Superannuation

19 Nov

ATO takes off the gloves over SMSFs

Trustees of self managed superannuation funds have been warned by the Australian Taxation Office that it intends progressively moving beyond education to enforcement....

Financial planning

17 Nov

Westpac reaps fruits of its labour

Westpac Banking Corporation today - a year to the day since announcing its acquisition of BT Financial Group - says synergies from the highly publicised purchase last yea...