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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....

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...

Australia’s managed funds market can look forward to another 10 to 15 years of strong growth, according to a report released by Axiss Australia....

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...

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

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....

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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....

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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