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HESTA named Super Fund of the Year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... Innovation in Technology awards. Elana Rubin and Dr. Thomas Parry were meanwhile inducted into the SelectingSuper Hall of Fame as they achieved industry service awards. Super SA - Triple S was named best Workplace Value Choice product, REST Industry ...

Now for a taper in December

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013

ASIC bans Sydney adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... Oberg had acted dishonestly when taking funds from his clients' accounts, and concluded that he was not a person of good fame and character, and that a permanent banning was appropriate. "There is no place in the financial industry for individuals who ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... it's obituary is written and save for the diehard bulls - and perhaps, Warren (of the "be greedy when others are fearful" fame), best forgotten. Just our luck 'ey Virginia, the euro tragedy did a replay last month, giving more meat to that age-old adage ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Manufacturing has just had it's Gerry Harvey moment and no amount of pro-protectionist inquiries is going to help it wind back the clock to the lazy Australian economic daze of the 1950s. In January famed business entrepreneur Gerry Harvey fronted a ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... and Barry Eichengreen, economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Darn their goes my five minutes of fame! The Wall Street Journal also led me to a paper written by Lawrence Goodman of the Center for Financial Stability entitled "Solving ...

The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... uTouchLabs and is available for $1.19 from iTunes. It doesn't however directly refer to Paul the Octopus, who rose to worldwide fame when he upstaged the just completed soccer World Cup hosted in South Africa. Rainmaker this morning used the app to complete ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... and extrapolated into the future. They could happen or they might not. In the 1800s Thomas Malthus (of Malthusian theory fame) worried that the world will run out of food because of soaring population. What happened? People in many developed countries ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... more sleep and the verdict would be in. Reminds me of another star analyst, Abbey Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs who rose to fame during the bull market leading up to the dotcom bust. Her star burnt out after persisting on her bullish views as the dotcoms ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure ...