Nicholas O'Donoghue

Nicholas was a journalist for Money Management and Super Review. Nicholas has several years experience as a journalist, reporting and managing websites for various news publications covering the medical and pharmaceuticals sector.

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Financial planning

18 Jan

Banned adviser jailed over multi-million dollar fraud

Ex-financial adviser, Thanh Tu, will serve a minimum of three years in prison after pleading guilty to 33 counts of fraud and 21 counts of fraudulent falsification of rec...

Policy & Regulation

18 Jan

Summertime disasters costing insurers $1.3m a day

Catastrophes, including bushfires and a tornado, are costing insurers $1.3 million a day, the Insurance Council of Australia reveals....

Financial planning

15 Jan

Bell FG closes 2015 on a high

Bell Financial Group is starting 2016 on a high, following the announcement of a 165 per cent increase in pre-tax profits....

Financial planning

15 Jan

Big boss is watching you shopping at work

More than half of Australian employers monitor their staff members’ internet use, with a further 27 per cent blocking access to online shopping sites, a survey reveals....

Life/Risk

14 Jan

Property industry starts 2016 with confidence

Increasing activity in Australia’s commercial property sector is fuelling industry confidence in the national economy....

Funds management

13 Jan

Provisional liquidators appointed to companies in suspected ‘Ponzi scheme’

Provisional liquidators have been appointed to wind up five companies suspected of operating a ‘Ponzi scheme’, in a case involving two of Australia’s biggest banks....

Accounting

12 Jan

Accountants ruled to be liable for payroll tax penalties

An accountancy group has been found to be liable for more than $200,000 in payroll tax, penalties and interest, after a tribunal ruled it had failed to pay payroll tax co...

Financial planning

11 Jan

Do accountants know the boundaries under limited licensing?

Limited licensing for accountants is all well and good, but how will it be policed, financial services mergers and acquisitions consultant, John Birt asks....

Financial planning

08 Jan

Australian workers more motivated than others

While the summer months bring an annual slowdown to Australia’s financial services sector, employers do not believe it is associated with the motivation of their staff, r...

Life/Risk

07 Jan

Commercial property sales fall short of 2014 record

Declining domestic investment in Australian commercial property is likely to be off-set by growing demand from overseas investors, research reveals....