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Fixed income offers little equity risk protection: CFM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... investment portfolios look somewhat vulnerable. Jordan believes that in this environment, alternatives offer the only genuine defence against a market correction. "In a world where you've lost the ability to diversify into fixed interest, you need some ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Enthusiasts Party Senator Ricky Muir. Lambie's decision to start a campaign to vote against all government legislation until defence personnel are offered an increased pay deal was key to giving the majority to the opposition. The Financial Planning ...

Leeanne Turner wins FEAL fund executive of the year

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... MTAA Super since 2011. She has worked for organisations such as AVSuper, Military Schemes Secretariat, the Department of Defence and ComSuper. The winner of the award receives a $20,000 executive education grant to allow them to take time out from the ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen to 1.7%10 in 2008, and this was before the budgetary crisis that ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... maybe after Ukraine. As The Economist magazine puts it, "Mr Putin believes that his own political future depends on the defence of Russia's regional influence-that is the lesson he draws from the Soviet Union's collapse". Perhaps this is because Putin ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... after the United States and European Union agreed to expand restrictions against Moscow, targeting the Russian energy, defence and finance sectors. Russian markets, however, rallied around 2.0 per cent as investors breathed a sigh of relief that sanctions ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... which had been more reluctant than the US to boost its sanctions against Russia, imposed new restrictions on the finance, defence and energy sectors to increase the economic cost to Russia for its intervention in Ukraine. The US followed with new restrictions ...

Advisers eye opportunity in identity theft protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... me to see some sort of regulatory interest, and possibly action, in this area." "A digit PIN is often the only line of defence stopping hackers accessing this information, and given the extent to which people tend to choose similar PINs and passwords ...

S&P, ABN Amro appeals rejected in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... judgement cannot be overestimated. "The implications for other claims currently in the court are enormous." "The standard defence tactic of apportioning blame has only made proceedings more complex.A The strategy of blaming other parties to lessen liability ...

Australian Super backtracked on airport valuation: Future Fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014