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Funds management

New data on ETFs reveals solid growth in 2012, bringing the value of industry to $6.4 billion in Australia....

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Life/Risk

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has announced the sale of its entire UK operations following a strategic group review....

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Editorial

AMP's acquisition of Cavendish Group marked the beginning of a major push into the SMSF sector, while in the same month IOOF launched its bid for Plan B....

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Financial planning

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank announces acquisition of Southern Finance Group....

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Editorial

With fixed interest investments becoming increasingly popular with all types of investors, Michael Frearson writes it is crucial that they know what to look out for....

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Editorial

ETFs have been growing at a rapid pace in the last few years, but as Janine Mace writes, this might be due to their potential, rather than the recent and current achievem...

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Financial planning

Yellow Brick Road confirms deal with Macquarie after entering a trading halt earlier today....

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Financial planning

Litigation funder IMF Australia has confirmed further action against S&P and ABN Amro....

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Funds management

If the ASX continues to concentrate around mining and resources, it could hurt the allocation to Aussie equities by super funds, according to ASFA's Gordon Noble....

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Financial planning

Health insurer, nib, acquires Tower's NZ health insurance business....

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Financial planning

NAB announces a profit drop, but NAB Wealth reports a solid result along with departure of "lower productivity" salaried advisers....

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Financial planning

Mariner Corporation Limited has made a $24.5 million offer to buy the ordinary shares of Wilson HTM Investment Group....

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Financial planning

Bank of Queensland's announcement yesterday of an annual loss has sounded a warning bell for Australia's regional banks, according to ratings house FitchRatings....

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Financial planning

Countplus has acquired a 25 per cent stake in South Australian professional services firm Hood Sweeney....

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Superannuation

A service providing convenient share registry data access for SMSF administrators has been announced by BGL Corporate Solutions and Computershare Investor Services Austra...

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