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Perpetual Trustees will expand its corporate trust business after purchasing AXA Trustees for $24 million....

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Tower Life has launched what it considers the first life insurance product to be available online....

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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark says the Government will push on with plans to establish a dedicated superannuation fund despite no guarantee of majority support...

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When the National bought MLC earlier this year, LendLease Financial Planning had to look for a new name – and fast. After some angst, the group took on the handle “Apoge...

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Prominent financial services industry figure Kate Mulligan has taken on the role of director of marketing with Sealcorp....

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The AMP Asset Management brand has now officially disappeared from the Australian market....

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Skandia doesn’t do manufacturing and it doesn’t do retailing. Stuart Engel discovers exactly what it is the Swedish based financial services giant intends to do in Austra...

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There has been a rush of financial services groups launching products that allow investors in Telstra II instalment receipts to defer their final payment. Macquarie Bank ...

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New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....

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Property management company Waltus could be in for a protracted court battle as it fights to implement a plan to amalgamate most of its property syndicates into one entit...

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I read with some interest the letter that Marj Russell wrote about licensing advisers....

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St George has spent $10 million on a 7 per cent stake in burgeoning accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford, valuing the group at nearly $150 million....

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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