Credit/debit card fees at record lows

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Credit & debit cards Record fall in credit card debt. The average credit card balance fell by 2.7 per cent in smoothed terms in the year to September, the biggest... Read more continue reading

Australian women can have it all

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Many Australian women appear to have a mistaken belief that they must sacrifice quality of life today in order to have a satisfactory standard of living in retirement, according to... Read more continue reading

Frugal Google: More than 4 million Aussies take financial advice and tips from the internet

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The Internet is helping save Australians millions of dollars every year as they increasingly seek out better deals on financial products, according research by Australia’s leading specialist life insurer, TAL. The TAL... Read more continue reading

Orient Capital achieves industry first with electronic super fund reporting to APRA

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Link Group subsidiaries Orient Capital, AAS and Link Super collaborate to provide solution for super fund clients Forty seven superannuation funds representing over 4 million members have for the first... Read more continue reading

Dare to disagree – equities manager warns of the dangers of groupthink

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Fear of expressing views at odds with the group could be causing some fund managers to ignore information which could lead to better investment decisions. This is the view of... Read more continue reading

Have more than just a ticket to the game

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Social media marketing may be helping consumers find and research financial advisers but in the age of digital media, an online presence is just a ticket to the game, according... Read more continue reading

New data standards for group life insurance sector

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Life insurer TAL has developed web-based digital technology for the group insurance market that is the first in the world to meets a new global standard for the group life... Read more continue reading

Create the right culture for lasting success

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Imagine owning a sports business that continued for well over 100 years and during that time had a winning record against all comers of over 83%? In the Test arena... Read more continue reading

Education costs continue to outstrip inflation

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The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures show that education costs continue to outstrip inflation, maintaining the trend that has persisted for the past decade. Parents’ concerns about the increasing... Read more continue reading

US debt ceiling: is there a long-term solution?

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Thankfully politicians in the US can at least agree on one thing – that America defaulting on its obligations would be a “bad thing”. And so it was recently at... Read more continue reading