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Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... and the Stock Exchange - would be on holiday for all of this week. This means Greece would be broke, or more broke, or broken. But Greece had been broke from the day it was accepted into the Eurozone. Greece joined the single currency area on 1 January ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... million capital cap." ASFA is also recommending concessional contribution caps be changed in a way that individuals with broken work patterns are able to make sufficient contributions. In other tax news the Insurance Council of Australia welcomed the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 36.02 points (0.71 per cent) at 5,092.08, boosting the record broken on Thursday, 15 years after the heights of the dot-com boom. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 21.45 (0.12 per ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Fund manager Epoch Investment Partners has blamed the relatively poor performance of active managers in recent years on the market distorting impact of quantitative easing and says talented stock pickers will come good again soon. S&P Dow Jones recently ...

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The period between separation and divorce is fraught with estate planning dangers, CommInsure national technical manager Alex Koodrin explained at a recent Financial Standard Technical Services Forum in Sydney. Koodrin said that the average time period ...

Remove 10% rule for deductible contributions: SMSF Association

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... policy announcement when it was made and still believe it's the wrong policy decision." Slattery added that "people with broken work patterns, such as women who have to leave the workforce to have children, can often be disadvantaged. "There is an urgent ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... improvements in the real economy... and that's also if the monetary policy transmission mechanism -- which the ECB President deems broken, had been repaired. Hopefully, this latest fix will help fix it.

Medcraft furious over "absolutely appalling" advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... I've come to this very new in the last seven years," Medcraft said during an address at the National Press Club. "It has broken my heart to see what financial advisers have done to people, what they continue to do to people. It's wrong," he added. Visibly ...

FUM breaks thru $2tr

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... Rainmaker's just released 'Roundup' report that reveals Australia's investment management market at end June 2014 to have broken through the $2 trillion threshold thanks to $1.8 trillion from Australian investors and $236 billion from international clients ...

SG frozen till 2021, industry 'dismayed'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia said the Government's decision "represented a broken election promise not to bring in any negative changes to superannuation." Financial Services Council chief executive John ...