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Club Plus Super increases women on trustee board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... of the federal government's Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation; and the first independent and female director of the Fire Brigades Employees' Credit Union. She is a former chief executive of Qantas Super and is also a non-executive director and ...

Embrace change to stay relevant

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
No advice business is too big to fail if it doesn't adapt to changes in consumer behaviour, according to author and social researcher Michael McQueen. Speaking at the Association of Financial Advisers National Adviser Conference in Cairns this week ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... sidelines... and waiting on the Fed. Investors are awaiting the Fed's tit for the ECB and the PBOC's tat. Will the Fed return fire? The ECB and the PBOC's announcements - promised and actual - last week, along with the potential for a BOJ move this coming ...

AMP Capital invests $277m in natural gas

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
AMP Capital has invested $277 million (US$200 million) in a loan facility that will finance natural gas-fired power plants in the US and Canada. AMP Capital has acted as the sole lead arrangement of a subordinated debt investment in Invenergy Clean ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Shots fired! Shots fired! Yes Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as ...

Frydenberg relaxed about SMSF borrowing

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has sent a clear signal that SMSF borrowing arrangements are unlikely to come under fire in upcoming tax reviews. In a speech to the Tax Institute, the Assistant Treasurer spoke widely about the parliament's tax and ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... February 2007 dive in the Shanghai Composite index yesterday. What triggered the sell-off, nobody really knows. Someone shouted "fire" and everyone and his dog rushed for the exits - I don't think anyone wants to be barbecued alive. Speculations, whispers ...

Cbus appoints new executive manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... working with community sector organisations in non-executive director roles and on the front line as a member of the County Fire Authority.

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... to use protection... just in case. Talkin' 'bout protection, today's headlines are filled with stories about how the rapid fire of protection measures implemented by China's powers that are over the past few days have failed to stem the "panic", the ...