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Wait and see with annuities: Navigator

BY HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 3 JUL 2006 12:12PM

Despite some doomsayers predicting that the end was nigh for annuities after the May Federal Budget, Navigator has urged those with an annuity product to adopt a wait and see approach.

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