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Rising age pension costs unfair on young people: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
The cost of the age pension is growing so rapidly that it risks breaking Australia's intergenerational social contract, warns a new report. The report, 'The myths of the intergenerational bargain' by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), says that ...

Towers Watson hires senior consultant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Towers Watson has appointed a senior consultant to be based in the company's Sydney office. Aongus O'Gorman took up the role on 13 July and specialises in liquid diversifying strategies. O'Gorman was previously managing director of Round Tower Solutions ...

Regulator clouding wealth management: PractiFI

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... the data is outside Australia, could be troublesome. "Where it all breaks down, however, is with APRA's assertion that IT risks are dramatically ramped up when using contemporary outsourced approaches. They just aren't," Johnstone said. "Understanding ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... If the central bank moves too soon to raise interest rates, it could choke off the recovery. But if it waits too long, it risks encouraging too much inflation or otherwise becoming a source of financial instability." That may be, but a glance at the ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
You can almost taste it. It's nearly here. That time of year when that age-old Wall Street adage tells us to go away. May is coming! And right on cue, we get spooks from renewed and escalated tension in the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Ho-hum. This is how I felt early Saturday morning (or was it afternoon?). No Virginia, it wasn't because I had one drink too many the night before - still, I invoke my right to remain silent. 'Twas because that all-important, that mother of all eco ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... that, regionally and globally," Briscoe said. "That's understandable but, from a long-term bond investment perspective, it risks missing the bigger picture about how China's economic and financial reforms-including, most importantly, the internationalisation ...

Future Fund hands confidential documents to AustralianSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... is understood that AustralianSuper assumes that the fund should handover the requested documents, but if this happens it risks breaching a confidentiality agreement with AIX.

Future Fund legally bound to protect docs in AustralianSuper feud

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... billion dollar sovereign wealth fund should handover the documents that have been requested, however if this happens it risks breaching a confidentiality A agreement. As a result the Future Fund will defend its right to keep the documents confidential ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... rigorous for an already weakened economy to handle - GDP is expected to contract by 1% this year. But if it doesn't do so it risks a downgrade in its AAA rating. And then there's the PMI - again a reminder of our expectations of not so long ago that ...