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Snowball has recruited former St George executive Carl Scarcella as general manager of operations as it prepares to unleash its online financial services product on to th...

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Prudential has secured a foothold in the world’s largest life insurance market with the $A357 million purchase of Orico Life Insurance in Japan....

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Macquarie Bank will be throwing the door open to the online US share trading market by giving their customers access to a US online broker for $US39.95 ($A72.18) a trade....

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Financial services and insurance giant AMP has neither confirmed nor denied speculation that it is interested in acquiring assets of UK insurer, Equitable Life....

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The sale of a financial planning practice could soon be as simple as clicking a mouse button, following the unveiling of an internet site designed for the buying and sell...

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AM Corporation is one of the last surviving independently owned financial services groups in Australia. Stuart Engel examines the impact of one of the biggest revamps in ...

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Financial planners on the look out for new opportunities might do well to target women approaching retirement....

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BT Portfolio Services and Zurich Financial Services have bagged the lion’s share of Investor Group’s outsourcing of support services for its financial planning division, ...

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Conservative investors may end up with the bigger returns for 2000 as conservative asset classes such as bonds outperformed growth assets such as shares....

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Dresdner has increased its presence in the burgeoning Chinese investment market with the signing of a co-operation agreement with a Chinese financial services group....

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Standard & Poor’s has merged two divisions and placed Gavin Gunning as head of the newly formed financial services ratings group for Australia and New Zealand....

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Former Garrisons financial planner Phillip John Maguire has been banned from acting as a financial adviser due to bankruptcy....

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