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Though they might often be seen as a cute addition to the family, children are also an extremely heavy financial burden for Australian parents, leaving families in need o...

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Australia’s major industry associations have welcomed the Government’s push to give regulators sweeping new powers to police the $520 billion superannuation industry with...

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Newly launched boutique funds management group Select Asset Management is looking to release two funds as part of its strategy to establish itself as an ‘absolute return’...

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Stockford chair Chris Riordan has attributed the group’s poor performance through 2001 and 2002 to the key issues of board instability, profit downgrades due to integrati...

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The Deakin Financial Services dealer group will launch its own wrap service early next year after revealing today that it had signed off on the development of the new pla...

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Financial advisers are in for a tough time over the next five to ten years, as pension products offered directly through industry superannuation funds take a larger slice...

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The Snowball Group has signed a deal with Vodafone to provide financial advice to the telecommunication company’s 800 staff in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania....

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AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl has handed over the reins of chairman at the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to Queensland Investment Corporation ch...

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IWL’s attempt to increase its stake in Perth based online broking group Sanford continues to be embroiled in controversy, with IWL chief executive Otto Buttula having to ...

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Challenger International’s flagship fund, the Howard Mortgage Trust, has seen its assets under management rise to more than $2 billion, placing it in the top 10 largest m...

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Challenger International has made changes to its board structure in the wake of criticism of its corporate governance practices with the roles of chair and managing direc...

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In a further shake up at the top of troubled accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford, chief executive and managing director John Malouf announced yesterd...

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