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Financial advice is a boring game

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... and marriage counselling." He continued, saying that implementing ideas behind finology - which is "the study of minds, customs and behaviour with respect to money," according to PortfolioConstruction Forum managing partner Graham Rich - will enable ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... competitive position in a rapidly growing market, promote two-way investment and reduce import costs," national head of customs and international trade Russell Wilkinson says. However, Instreet Investment managing director George Lucas warns that a correction ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... Centre, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and Australian Customs and Border Protection Services. "This type of crime poses a genuine threat to national security and to the integrity of Australia's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... foreign exchange, the European single currency fell to $US1.0583 ($A1.38) from $US1.0599 late in New York on Friday. China's customs administration said exports fell by a surprising 15 per cent year-on-year in March, while imports tumbled 12.7 per cent ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... pipelines. Fiber-optic networks are also to get funding, as are information technology, new energy and bio-technology. Customs and other regulations that might inhibit trade and investment are to be smoothed out." China's building it and I'm pretty sure ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... the Budget, and the closure of nine detention centres. To better manage services at Australia's borders, immigration and customs operational responsibilities will be consolidated into a single border control agency, the Australian Border Force. Everything ...

PROFILE: Westpac GM of bank financial planning

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... It began in 1979 when, at the age of 19, after spending three years in London where his father was head of Australian Customs, Chesworth returned to his home town of Canberra and got a job on the inquiry desk of what was then the Bank of New South Wales. ...

Taxes, levies and fees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013

Australians missing $18 billion in lost super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... Westpac's Lost Super Report which was released this morning. The report, which was launched at the 'Lost Super Wheel' at Customs house in Sydney's CBD, also showed that almost half of Australians are likely to have lost super. Australian's disengagement ...

UK to tax platform rebates as income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... force investors to restructure their investments and trigger premature capital gains tax liabilities. The UK Revenue and Customs service said the taxation will apply to investments outside individual savings accounts and pensions but it will not be retrospective. ...