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Mother's Day Classic raises $4.5m for breast cancer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
Women in Super's Mother's Day Classic has raised $4.5 million for the National Breast Cancer Foundation in its 2014 campaign. This brings the total figure raised to $24.3 million since the campaign first ran in 1998. Mother's Day Classic National Chair ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Budget speech 2014 -15

Madam Speaker, I move that the Bill for the Budget be now read a second time. Our future depends on what we as a nation do today. For our children, for our seniors, for individuals, for families, for our disabled and for our frail, for all of us, the ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... independence in the early 60s, a civil war ensued that made it too dangerous to remain there, and the family moved to his mother's native Sydney. At the age of 17 at the suggestion of his father Bell enrolled in Duntroon military college. "It was a tough ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
Was it good? Was it bad? Was it the weather? Was it not? We're talkin' about America's mother-of-all-eco-stats - the US non-farm payrolls report - released last week. Too bad we won't know for sure what the market's general consensus is coz geo-politics ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... world central banks' promise to act if necessary to deliver sustainable growth. When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Janet Yellen comes to me, speaking... In case you've forgotten - 'twas only two months ago when US Federal Reserve Chair Janet ...

Super fund CEOs compete on breast cancer fundraiser

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... industry's frontrunner in the race to see who can raise the most money for breast cancer research. As part of Women in Super's Mother's Day Classic - the largest breast cancer research fundraiser in Australia - chief executives are being challenged to ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
While Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and re-join Mother Russia - and the tit for tat sanctions between the US and Europe and Moscow - and speculation over the faster- and sooner-than-predicted US Federal Reserve hike in interest rates hogged most ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... one drink too many the night before - still, I invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco stats, the US Non-farm Payrolls report, did not contain any shocking information to change the Fed's thoughts on ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... dissuade him from what methinks is his bigger picture ambition - bringing back the sovereigns that one after the other left Mother Russia's fold in the early 1990s back into the Union - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. He started with Georgia ...