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Forget Osama, it is Obama that grabbed burningpants attention this month with the roasting he served up to Donald Trump over the conspiracy theories regarding his birthplace.

Obama gave what was more of a stand-up comedy routine than a speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner, …

If British banks were hoping for some good news last week they were wrong as one of the UK’s leading supermarket chains set its sights on luring retail customers away from the much maligned high street banks.

Tesco, a UK supermarket goliath that made almost £4 billion ney …

If you, like everyone else, are sitting there waiting for a sign that it might be time to get back in the market, sit up and pay attention.

Why? Because the sentiment of the rich, who are commonly a lead indicator when it comes to investing, is turning …

A fear of government tinkering is fueling a huge level of distrust in the superannuation system, with the large majority of Australians distrustful or unsure of whether the Federal Labor Government will leave super alone.

CoreData-brandmanagement’s latest Investor Sentiment Index, which surveyed almost 900 Australians, has shown nearly …

Time is money so they say. But here at burningpants we believe time is relative, as in today’s busy world our perspective on time varies from one event to the next.

We may run to catch a train to save a few minutes or drive fast in our …

Advisers generally don’t like exams – was the take home message of a historical debate in the UK Parliament on Monday night.

The debate on financial advice in the House of Commons late into the evening at the beginning of the week turned out to be a one …

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