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Advisers should not sail too close to the wind when it comes to tax planning. At least that is the opinion of Kenneths Group director John Day who says it is im-portant ...

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Inch.com.au has launched a website offering financial planners and their clients on-line financial planning advice, legal and accounting services....

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Summit master trust has rolled out its own DIY service for self managed super funds (SMSFs) and their trustees, offering administration and custody services. ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is encouraging investors to use a report highlighting unstable offshore financial centres....

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Investors remain undeterred by recent sharemarket volatility, seeing it as an opportunity to buy bargain stocks. According to a recent Macquarie Bank survey, 68 per cent ...

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Bendigo Bank has made a scrip for scrip bid for Queensland-based First Australian Building So-ciety valuing First Australian at $140 million....

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Colonial boss Peter Smedley has been named chairman of BHP's long products business, to be called OneSteel....

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E*Trade in the US will team up with accounting and consulting giant, Ernst & Young to provide online financial planning, according to reports in the New York Times....

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Mergers and acquisitions, an increase in claims and more generous definitions of Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) have reduced the number of group life products on of...

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IOOF is selling its St Kilda headquarters building to release capital for further expansion of its fund management business, says group managing director Robert Turner....

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Hartley Poynton is to spin off its e-commerce division and relaunch it as a provider of e-commerce and outsourcing solutions for financial services groups....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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