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Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... care and pension costs, a leading UK government minister has proposed cutting welfare and diverting the savings to the police and armed forces. In a widely reported interview with the UK Telegraph newspaper, Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith said ...

Yields above 10% up for grabs in unlisted property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... property investor Folkestone has been targeting real estate-backed social infrastructure such as early learning centres, police stations, courts, medical centres and retirement villages as a safe source of reliable income. "The great thing about most ...

Advisers warned: take sequencing risk seriously

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... advisers need to shift their emphasis from rates of return to asset allocation. Drew gave the real-life example of two police officers born 18 months apart. They had identical careers, reaching the same rank, earning the same income, and making the same ...

Vale Aberdeen's Wallace and McMenigall

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... measures - wage cuts and "plans for a transfer and layoff scheme for 25,000 public workers - mainly teachers and municipal police," according to Reuters. Reuters also reports that this 25,000 sorry mob would be given eight months to find other jobs or ...

ASIC bans Gateway Financial adviser permanently

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... authorities. Doyle obtained approximately $173,000 to which he was not entitled. In late 2011, Doyle was charged by NSW Police with a number of fraud offences and was later sentenced to jail for 18 months, which was suspended on condition that he enter ...

SEC charges US adviser with pension fund theft

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... Mayfield, who is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, took the money from the Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit without obtaining permission. They also allege he spent the proceeds ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... government would feel the effects. Among those he listed: furloughed FBI agents, reductions in spending for communities to pay police and fire personnel and teachers, and decreased ability to respond to threats around the world. " He said the consequences ...

Ex-drug dealers now hitting-up SMSFs: ACC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... spearheaded a major investigation into organised crime-driven investment fraud after it was approached by the South Australian Police Force. After it used its coercive powers, such as phone taps and secrete hearings with the same legal standing as a ...

Keep chasing architects of Trio collapse: Agencies

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... parliamentary committee on Thursday pleaded with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), the Federal Police and the Crime Commission to continue their inquiries into the fraud, AAP reported. The committee also commended ASIC for helping ...