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		<title>The Exaxe Blog has moved!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Exaxe are delighted to announce the launch of their new logo and new website: www.exaxe.com! We have also moved our blog over to www.exaxe.com/blog, so please pay us a visit as all of our blogs will now be posted at www.exaxe.com/blog.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Investments, not savings, are the answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What’s the difference between saving and investing?  Many people confuse the two terms yet the difference is substantial.  Savings refer to zero risk products that usually gain a nominal interest, which is close to but does not meet the general inflation rate.  Thus the savings mount up over time but there is a gradual erosion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exaxe jobs announcement in the media!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week we were delighted to announce our revenue growth and our job creation plan for the next three years. Please see below for some of the coverage we received: Irish Independent &#8211; Exaxe reports 30pc increase in revenue RTE.ie News &#8211; Exaxe to add jobs in expansion plan Herald.ie &#8211; 20 new jobs at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>EXAXE reports 30% increase in revenues and job creation plans for next two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dublin, Ireland, 18th August 2011. Exaxe, the specialist IT solutions provider for the Life and Pensions industry, today announced a 30% increase in revenues for the year ending 2010 and its plans to expand the business with the generation of 20 new jobs over the next two years. This revenue growth reflects the continued success [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City A.M. &#8211; Property is not a one-way bet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[47% of 25-34 year olds living in Britain have not yet started saving into a pension according to Baring Asset Management research reported in today’s City A.M.  13% of respondents reported that their property is their retirement fund which is particularly worrying due to the property collapse that has happened in the UK and abroad. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>FSA needs to reach the RDR end game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you, FSA!  Another policy statement from the FSA drops on the mat.  And guess what – it’s about the retail distribution review. The FSA HQ in Canary Wharf must by now be over 80% dedicated to producing these massive tomes.  Like the three-volume-novel so popular in Victorian times, they follow a set formula: discussion paper [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Australian Financial Planner confusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia report from Roy Morgan Research paints an alarming picture of the confusion within the industry in Australia. Most financial planners are either working for one of the big eight fund managers or are aligned to them.  And therefore, to no one’s surprise surely, financial planners are funnelling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Old advisers get no support from the TSC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saturday’s report from the Treasury Select Committee (TCS) on the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is out and their main conclusion is that the Financial Services Authority are on the right track with RDR with one major exception – the demand that all IFAs hold level 4 qualifications after the 31st December 2012. The TSC recommendation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Canada trusts its pension providers – why don&#8217;t we?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once again, the Canadians are showing how to tackle fundamental problems by using a large dose of common sense and sweating the assets you already have. Following on from their brilliant but obvious approach to transferring pension risk to individuals and then teaching them to cope with it (see blog &#8211; http://wp.me/pn0vi-3S), they now seem [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Compulsion may be the only choice for pensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Monday’s Populus survey for the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) showed that 47% of those aged between eighteen and thirty-four would save more for their retirement if they knew how much state pension they would get. Accordingly, the NAPF have stated that the reason for the lack of saving for the future with young [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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