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Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... extended family after his father was struck in a fatal car accident on the day of his university graduation. Stammer's mother died of tuberculosis when he was five and the disastrous 1955 floods in the Hunter Valley stopped him from attending high ...

Super funds slam budget's super gap measures

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
Superannuation funds welcomed the budget's move to dump the $450 threshold, but called out a lack of measures to close the super gap. Last night's budget included five key decisions on superannuation. These were abolishing the $450 per month ...

ASIC drops Caddick charges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... found washed up on Bournda Beach in NSW had been forensically identified as belonging to Caddick. The 49-year-old wife and mother was last seen at her Dover Heights home during the evening of Wednesday 11 November 2020. Police have since presumed Caddick ...

Hume expands portfolio

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
Following a cabinet reshuffle, minister for superannuation, financial services and the digital economy Jane Hume will now take on responsibility for women's economic security. Hume's title is now minister for women's economic security, minister ...

Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... education and hard work were the key measures of success. I was also very lucky to have such a strong hard-working woman in my mother, who taught us the importance of independent financial stability. In her mind the financial services sector was influential ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
The All Ordinaries index finished 2020 with a gain of 0.7%. Nothing to write home to mother about, especially compared with the 16.3% and 16.0% surge in the S&P 500 and the Nikkei-225, respectively, over the same period. However, the local bourse's ...

Woman allegedly left out of will because she was born by artificial insemination

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... benefiting her too. But, the fact that the will defines her as a step-child and the marriage between Robert Smorgon and her mother ended could mean Samantha Smorgon has very few rights under the law. Peter Townsend, owner of Townsends Business and Corporate ...

Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... March 2020 (three days after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a pandemic) is now looking at the mother of all recessions (depression?) at least in our lifetime (crossed fingers). According to the BOE's May missive: "The unprecedented ...

Chief economist update: The cheaper alternative

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
"Australia is following in the COVID-19 footsteps of the UK and experts are warning the floodgates are likely to open soon." This statement -- printed by the Australian Financial Review - talked about the rising number of infections in the UK and how ...

Call for pause on default insurance changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
A prominent law firm is calling for upcoming changes to default insurance within superannuation to be postponed, as the COVID-19 pandemic increases the chance Australians will need to rely on the cover automatically provided by their super fund. Slater ...