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Budget speech 2014 -15

... Family Tax Benefit Part B, a payment that will no longer be available when a family's youngest child turns six and is at school. Staying at home should be a parent's choice but there are limits on how much support the taxpayer can give. For Australians ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... college. "It was a tough, all-male, environment," he says. "Either you met the standard or you were out. It wasn't a finishing school for nice blokes." After four years of studying, Bell started out as a junior officer in infantry, then the parachute ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... idyllic tropical life" is how David Atkin describes his childhood in Papua New Guinea. While his parents taught in a local school, he spent his days "wandering around the forest, being looked after by the locals, exploring every day, having a lot of ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... he realised that it was not the kind of life that he was looking for. He then chose the other path, went back to night school, did an apprenticeship and became a qualified tradesman. After working as a tradesman for some time, Ripoll was ready for another ...

NGS Super rebrands, launches new logo

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Industry fund NGS Super has rebranded, launching a new logo, website, refreshed advertising and a smartphone application. NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell- Ball said the rebranding was aimed at representing all of its member base, which encompasses ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

FICAP RockStar of the year crowned

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... with 160 kids a year. 89% of those children are Aboriginal and many have problems with truancy and behavioural problems at school. Many also have problems at home." Count's Mekhail was not the only winner. KPMG's Sarah Marshall took the best newcomer ...

Auction items for FICAP announced

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... corporate team-building activity for 10 people in the live auction and a one-day floristry styling course for two from Pearsons School of Floristry and a $170 voucher for the Sydney Seafood School in the silent auction. Weave and its Kool Kids Club is ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... with the intention of becoming a stockbroker - that he realised he had more than an average level of talent. "When I left school, I was going to give the game away," he says. "My mother wanted me to focus on my studies. But a mate of mine's dad - who ...