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Cbus defends member contact sharing policy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... has been set by the Royal Commission to further question Cbus. However the commission reserved the right to recall the witnesses.

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... thousands of pages contained in 456 submissions. It has also conducted five public hearings and listened to dozens of witnesses, sometimes for more than 10 hours in a row. Senators will spend the coming weeks working on a report that is expected to be ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Ayy-yay-yay-yay-yay! Here we go again. Weak economic reports out of China have again put a question mark about its economy and by extension, the economy of the world. Oh sowee Virginia, I stand corrected... it wasn't a question mark, China's headed ...

Tarrant appeals AAT banning order

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... "Not to mention the exclusion of most of my evidence; the acceptance of the verbal evidence of a criminal over 3 other witnesses as well as continuing on for 2.5 days of hearings in my absence," Tarrant added. The AAT found the breaches by Tarrant included ...

Bad estate planning advice is getting clients in trouble

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... properly. "The nomination has to be in writing, appropriately signed by the nominator, the member and two independent witnesses and dated." He also said that if advisers or accountants prepare deeds, they need to make sure that they are "high quality ...

Friday the 13th spook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... savers. That seemed to have calmed markets a bit. However, at the end of the day, it's just a replay of what we've been witnesses to since 2010. Euro officials announce a plan to solve the debt crisis, markets think it's stupid and sells off, authorities ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... again. But in doing so, they're also depreciating the value of their respective currencies. Just very recently we became witnesses to the yen's slide merely on the promise of more expansive policy action by the Bank of Japan. This is what we call back ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... to infinity and expect the powers-that-are to sit, stand aside and just watch their economies burn. But as we've been witnesses to this year, they didn't do that. The most well-known of course is the Fed's QE3 and Super Mario's OMTs, but China, Japan ...

Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012