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Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
In April the Actuaries Institute launched an advertising campaign painting actuaries as the 'rock stars of the 21st Century'. FourA months into the role, new chief executiveA David Bell tells James Fernyhough what heA hopes the campaign will achieve. ...

Tens of thousands flock to Omaha

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
More than 40,000 Berkshire Hathaway investors flocked to Omaha, Nebraska for the company's annual general meeting. Legendary investor and Berkshire chairman Warren Buffett, 83, sat with his 90-year old business partner Charlie Munger for more than five ...

Allianz launches cyber risk insurance product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... breaches cost the global economy around $120 billion annually and are considered one of the top emerging risks for the 21st Century. Allianz has called on all businesses to review their vulnerability to cyber attack and the financial and reputational ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... Network Ten, where Mr Murdoch has retired as non-executive chairman to take up his new role at News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, were down 0.25 cents at 26.25 cents. Pharmaceuticals wholesaler Sigma Pharmaceuticals' shares were up 3.5 cents at 66.5 ...

MLC appoints new GM of advice groups

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... Planning and Meritum. Smith leaves MLC after less than a year in the role, though he has been with NAB/MLC since last century. He leaves the bank to return to Brisbane where he will become a partner in a boutique advice and accounting firm. Barnwell ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... collapse" former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev's left behind and calls it "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Fortunately, except for the countries directly involved - Russia and Ukraine - the reaction in financial markets have been ...

More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... relationships fundamental and key." Despite the opportunities and Australia's so-called willingness to participate in the 'Asian century', Australia is ranked only 10th for direct M&A investment into SEA placing it behind even The Netherlands and Rus ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... It's the classic classical economists' credo known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French economist Jean Say in the 19th century) that says that, "in a free market workers would always be willing to lower their wages to a level where employers could profitably ...

Lift aged pension to 70: Productivity Commission

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... requirements over this 50 year period are estimated to be more than 5 times the cumulative investment made over the last half century, which reveals the importance of an efficient investment environment," noted the report in what may be a veiled reference ...