What does Female Excellence look like in 2012? Like this…

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Excellence in advice is more than just providing quality advice, it’s about going over and beyond your call of duty to provide the support and living tools people need –

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Zenith rates the OCTIS Asia Pacific Fund Recommended

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OCTIS Asset Management (the “Manager”) is an Asian multi-strategy hedge fund manager that offers the OCTIS Asia Pacific Fund (the “Fund”). The Fund uses a combination of strategies with the

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US Federal Reserve approves QE3

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Earlier today, the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) approved another round of unconventional monetary stimulus, agreeing to deliver the third set of quantitative easing (QE3). The plans announced

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Weekly market & economic update – risk on!

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The past week has been another good one for investors as various key events that investors had been worrying about have continued to pass with positive outcomes. The big news

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Will you marry me?

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I have no idea what the actual statistics would be, but I am willing to wager that the success rate of popping the question “will you marry me?” onto a

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Wither the UK?

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The UK’s Standard Chartered bank is under investigation by four US federal bodies and faces up to a US$1 billion (A$1.05 billion) in fines for bypassing US money-laundering sanctions against

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Preference for bank deposits hits 38-year high

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The Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence rose by 1.6 per cent in September to a reading of 98.2. Sentiment levels are up 1.3 per cent on a year ago.

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House prices up, as first home buyers return to the market

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Median house prices across Australia’s capital cities have increased over the June quarter by 1.4 per cent, with other dwellings up 0.6 percent, according to the latest data from the

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No escape for tax cheats

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Two thousand individuals and companies were successfully prosecuted for fraud, tax and superannuation offences in the 2011-12 financial year. “Tax cheats are trying to get an unfair advantage, adding to

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Equity market volatility drives more planners to risk advice

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Risk advice is increasingly important to planners’ businesses, with more now advising on it than ever recorded in the eight years of this study’s history, according to a new report

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