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A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... personality across without doing it at the expense of someone else." When it comes to politics "you can attack a policy, but never the person behind it." Winner of the 2014 FS Smileys social media scholarship, Shorte said that only once did he publish ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... their bond yields and their respective 10-year bond yields dropped (except for Ireland which added a basis point to 1.66%). Never mind game theory and what have yous, the performance of the financial markets alone, especially that in the Eurozone, over ...

Australians ill prepared for financial future

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... on more short-term goals and assets like a car, or supporting their family. "It is important to understand that you can never start planning for your financial future early enough. A financial planner can help you create, grow and protect your assets ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... That's another two more after today. To quote Rita Mae Brown, "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done". Never mind if Greek banks don't open today - reports say that an additional a,-3 billion (US$3.4 billion) was withdrawn from the ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... of similar size, like the United States, Australia and even China to some extent, work like that. But Europe doesn't, and never has. Maybe this is the reason why the Old Continent is so difficult to decipher, and also why there are still so many hidden ...

PROFILE: EISS chief executive Alex Hutchison

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... various roles, from general uniformed duties in Canberra to plain clothes policing working on major drugs and fraud crime. "I never thought I'd leave the police because it was a great job, and I completed my law degree part-time while I was there," Hutchison ...

BT pays fines for misleading super statements

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... Super Australia (ISA), an organisation which manages collective projects on behalf of fifteen industry super funds. BT has never had an affiliation with ISA," ASIC said. Note: An earlier version of this article stated that BT Investment Management paid ...

US fiduciary rule fight not slowing down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
US financial services professional associations fire another salvo in their 5-year fight over limiting the application of fiduciary rules for financial advisers. Speaking to the Bipartisan Policy Center last month, the chief executive of the Securities ...

IOOF ripe for takeover, fund manager says

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... must be stocks that we are happy to hold in the absence of a bid." This means that the companies in the portfolio might never be taken over. However, the strategy invests in companies that fulfil four or five out of six key criteria: the presence of ...

Cbus chief executive answers Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... which contained an insinuation that the chief executive was involved, was one of the final reasons for her sacking. "It never crossed my mind that I shouldn't be making that decision," he told the commission. An interim report to the commission said ...