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Mercer reveals confronting life expectancy research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... white collar workers - will live well beyond the average and we need to begin planning more accurately for financial security at a personal and macro level," he said. Mercer partner Richard Boyfield, who is also leader of the company's public sector ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... News Agency printed that, "President Vladimir Putin has assembled an urgent meeting with permanent members of Russian Security Council on Friday, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said". "The situation in east Ukraine was discussed in detail with ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... Barack Obama said he had authorised air strikes against Sunni extremist militants in Iraq as concerns grew about the security situation there. Tokyo stocks dropped to a two-month low, falling 2.98 per cent, or 454.00 points, to close at 14,778.37. Sydney ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... longer wasting resources on unproductive enterprises such as espionage missions, building a bigger, better bomb, national security and anti-propaganda. According to http://www.usgovernmentspending.com, "Defense spending stood at 6.8 percent of GDP at ...

ASIC cracks down on advisers over PI insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... professional indemnity (PI) insurance obligations. The review targeted licensees which had not requested a release of a security bond required to be lodged with ASIC under a previous licensing regime. ASIC was concerned some licensees did not request ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and former Singapore Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. Kishore Mahbubani said a transformation of Asia, which is seeing a 10,000% improvement in the standard of living ...

Consumer awareness of vertical integration plummets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... are " section of the website does not mention Commonwealth Bank at all and consumers would have to go to "Privacy and Security," at the bottom of the website, to find out that Financial Wisdom is "a member of the Commonwealth Bank Group of companies." ...

AIST slams Xenophon's super home loan proposal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... Xenophon's proposal to allow first home buyers to access their super for a deposit would "threaten retirement income security", according to Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia. Xenophon has said he will ...

Henderson launches second fund to local market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... interest specialists - which leverages a total of 58 fixed interest experts in a bottom-up, 'best ideas' approach to security selection. The Henderson Fixed Income team managed $30.9 billion in assets as at 31 March 2014.

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... in the early days it was equities. "It must've been the whole idea of prices moving up and down and picking the right security. That aspect interested me," he says. Kirkham remembers giving a presentation to his primary school peers on shares when he ...