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Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... by more than 10 per cent with the average fall being 26.1 per cent, he said. "A man with one foot in a bucket of freezing water and one foot in a bucket of boiling water is quite comfortable on average," he said. "That doesn't work." Bonds were not necessarily ...

ASIC bans "deceptive" planner for five years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Corporate watchdog ASIC has banned a financial planner for five years after he tricked his clients with shonky advice which included arranging margin loans for them, it said today. ASIC said Ian John Weaver of Clear Island Waters, Queensland, broke ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... Electric Power Co (TEPCO), which runs the plant, ended at a record low Wednesday despite news that a leak of highly radioactive water into the sea had been stopped. Japanese shares fell despite the yen's continuing losses caused by expectations of tighter ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... catalysts to spur buying, dealers returned their attention to Japan where crews at Fukushima have begun dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean to prevent even more dangerous material from being released. Tokyo's Nikkei slipped 1.06 per cent ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... so today it's at a multi decade low," said Buckland. The Asian Value Trust is invested in a wide range of industries from water filtration to sports shoes and education to energy distributors. While Hunter Hall will cool off on some Australian stocks ...

LGS and VFMC join 'green' property movement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... more resource efficient institutional real estate industry. "Since 2004 LGS has made significant improvements in energy, water, carbon efficiency and waste recycling to our direct property portfolio and we are now starting to see financial benefits from ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... intensity 9 earthquake that would trigger a tsunami, cause a meltdown in its nuclear reactors and contaminate its sea, drinking water and agricultural produce with radioactive contamination. New Zealand and Australia too will be hit by natural disasters. ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... unresolved. Here's the latest from AFP, "Japan said it was on "maximum alert" over a crippled nuclear plant where radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil." Tensions in the Middle East and North Africa lingers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... and knocked out the cooling systems of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Dangerous levels of radiation detected in water puddles thought to be leaking from a stricken reactor have dealt a setback to efforts to restore cooling systems at the plant. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... suggested mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for contaminated water as emergency workers try to head off a disaster. IG Markets market strategist Ben Potter said there would probably be no ...