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Cbus faces serious industry problems with super payments

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
An independent governance review of Cbus found the construction industry faces a serious problem with employers regularly gaming the system and not meeting their superannuation payment obligations. The recent review was commissioned by the industry ...

Islamic investment delivers strong return for Crescent Wealth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Crescent Weath's bid to invest following Islamic and ethical principles has delivered strong returns for the superannuation fund's 3,500 members. The Crescent International Equity fund, offered within Crescent Wealth's investment options, had returned ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
Chances are there won't be any "shirt-fronting" happening in Beijing when Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces-off with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week. Tony doesn't have to, Russia's very own central bank have done it for him days ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Have dip... will buy. That's last week's story on Wall Street - the big dip on Thursday followed by a rebound the next day - and only because I got tired (as you too probably have) of hearing of what's developing to be Wall Street's 2014 anthem - Chumbawamba's ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... Gazprom Neft and OAO Rosneft, to its list of sanctioned businesses as well as 24 Putin "friends". The US expanded its sanction list too. But we're all aware of this. The 'West' and Russia will continue playing their tit-for-that until one blinks - that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open lower following Friday falls on Wall Street. The September share price index futures contract is down 19 points at 5,519. US stocks have dropped as the West slapped new sanctions on Russia and traders saw ...

SEC bestow first whistleblowers awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
While Australian financial regulators wrestle with how to treat whistleblowers, in the US regulators actually have a formal executive office dedicated to supporting them and even bestow awards on whistleblowers. The US Securities Exchange Commission ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014