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Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... they did already - but unless the new sanctions carry more bite, it'll be inutile. As "sanctioned" Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tweeted, "Comrade Obama, what should those who have neither accounts nor property abroad do? Have you not ...

Advisers have to act in client's best interests: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has echoed claims that regardless of what the government does to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation that financial advisers will still have undefined best interests obligations. Speaking at Parliament House ...

Calls for Sinodinos to "step aside" amid ICAC allegations

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... would be in the best interest of the integrity of the system if Senator Sinodinos would step aside" and called on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to ask him to step down. According to counsel assisting the ICAC inquiry Geoffrey Watson, Sinodinos was given ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... countries would be "forced to apply costs" to Moscow. The president made his remarks after meeting with Ukraine's new prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, at the White House. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... the scheduled G8 Summit in Sochi in June." But let's not stop there, according to The Globe and Mail, "(Canadian) Prime Minister Stephen Harper has warned Russia could be expelled from the G8 if it continues its military intervention in Ukraine..." And ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... $8.865, Santos up 11 cents at $13.75 and Woodside 23 cents higher at $38.18. Qantas was down 1.25 cents at $1.1525 as Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Qantas would face national interest tests even if the laws relating to majority Australian ownership ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Australia's First Lady of Financial Planning, Gwen Fletcher passed away peacefully in a Sydney nursing home on Friday 28 February. Gwen played a vital role in extending the financial planning profession beyond America's shores to Australia. It was also ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... thought after two-time (2000-2008 and 2012-present) Russian President and two-time (1999-2000 and 2008-2012) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin "asked" and "got" the Russian Parliament's approval to send a "stabilisation force" to Crimea only hours ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... package as a major reversal of Singapore's traditional resistance to Western-style welfare state policies, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in his budget speech: "We are strengthening social safety nets, and mitigating ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... dollar-A's "benign collapse" to happen ensures that this is not happening. Some 'ifs' are even contradictory or in Prime Minister Abbott's words, "oppository". Take the case of the "if the US lifts its rates by mid-2015". The Fed would lift rates in ...