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Bernie Ripoll to retire from federal politics

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Labor MP and architect of the first Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms Bernie Ripoll will not contest the next federal election. Ripoll announced the decision on his Facebook page and said that he will finish his term as an MP and will continue ...

Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... optimism about the outlook going into 2015." However, "business confidence is moving in the opposite direction because of politics," he told the audience of 650 people that attended the event in Sydney. He said that the business sector "invested a lot ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... complaints about Australia's lopsided financial system and so the FSI has delivered on its objectives in spades. As to the politics of what happens now, one thing is certain: after the Henry Tax Report debacle where most of its work was wasted it's hard ...

Further raise pension age, says Future Leaders winner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... and 75, but that the superannuation preservation age should be left at 60, and that both areas should be taken out of politics. Deloitte Wealth Management leader Neil Brown said: "Stephen presented a framework, to a panel of Australia's industry leaders ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... when global uncertainties seemed to have all come at once - Fed's final taper, China slowdown, eurozone triple dip, geo-politics, geo-health, falling iron ore and gold prices, increased financial market volatility. These may have affected business confidence ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... these days. Never mind that equity markets are reacting to "known knowns" - that is, global growth remains tepid with geo-politics, geo-health providing downside risks; the greater the threat to growth, the less appetite central banks (Fed and BOE) to ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Virginia? The financial press line up the usual suspects (and some freshly picked ones): interest rate concerns; geo-politics - Iraq, Syria, Russia, HK/China; tepid global growth; Ebola.... and then the dip buyers, the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers ...

Impartiality of FWC Expert Panel challenged again

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... said: "By his various public comments and activity, Mr Harcourt had repeatedly aligned himself with the Labor side of politics. These actions betray a lack of judgement one would ordinarily expect from a member of the Commission." In June the FSC challenged ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... has a bachelor's degree in business journalism and is an award-winning journalist who "writes on economics, markets and politics throughout the Asia-Pacific region" (Bloomberg). Lest I be misunderstood, I'm not writing to kill Bill, I just think that ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Putin a way out by pretending to take Putin at his "humanitarian mission" to Ukraine word. Good news (for now) on geo-politics aside, there's also good news on that big country that has been conspicuous in its silence on geo-politics - and its name is ...