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Financial planning

Job opportunities in the banking and financial services have surged in the first quarter of 2010, particularly for highly skilled temporary and contract staff, according ...

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Financial planning

Key bodies representing the financial services industry have broadly welcomed the Rudd Government's plans to overhaul the financial advice industry, but there are some ca...

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Financial planning

Twenty-nine staff employed by Forest Enterprises Australia have been made redundant....

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Financial planning

Firstfolio has announced it plans to acquire Apple Group, one of the company's major wholesale mortgage distribution and financial services partners....

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Financial planning

The receivers and managers appointed to run FEA have dispensed with the services of the company's senior executives as grower shareholders dig in....

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Financial planning

Advisers need to be more confident about their value propositions for life insurance, according to the chief executive of Tower Australia, Jim Minto....

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People & Products

Former BTFG general manager advice and planning Geoff Lloyd has joined Perpetual as group executive for Private Wealth....

Financial planning

Ironbark builds on its strategic partnership with Karara by acquiring two key Patriot funds....

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Financial planning

One in three Gen Y prospective first home buyers say they will never be able to afford to get into the property market....

Financial planning

OneVue has added CARM, a planning tool to help accountant and planners prepare a life plan for clients, to its product suite....

People & Products

The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has strengthened its technical capability with the appointment of David Shirlow as director to the boa...

Financial planning

The ACCC has opposed NAB's bid for AXA Asia Pacific, choosing to instead back AMP....

Financial planning

The industry super funds have paid for more research, the findings of which are bad for planners....

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Accounting

Accountants may seek compensation from the ATO as a result of damage to their reputation and bottom lines following problems flowing from the ATO's switch to a new IT sys...

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Financial planning

ANZ's strategic expansion in Asia is gathering momentum with the completion of its acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland’s Taiwanese business....

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