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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... client adviser Alistair McCorquodale said the geopolitical implications of Russian food import sanctions and potential US military intervention in the Middle East was weighing on the local exchange. "Across the board we're seeing a move away from the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... could escalate. Analysts cited comments by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who said Russia had increased its military presence on the Ukraine border, suggesting the situation could deteriorate. Tokyo's Nikkei fell 1.05 per cent or 160.52 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... for more than two years. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski's reported comments saying Russia had increased its military presence on the Ukraine border, suggesting a possible escalation in the conflict, prompted further market falls. LONDON - ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
South Korea's $8.5 billion Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has become the first overseas investor to invest in industry super investment vehicle The Infrastructure Fund. As well as being the only non-Australian stakeholder in The Infrastructure ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... lives. The downing of Malaysian Airline flight MH17 might push that turns into shove that prompts NATO to sanction a military intervention in the Ukraine. But Israel waits not for NATO. It has reportedly sent ground troops and tanks into Gaza. It didn't ...

Mother's Day Classic raises $4.5m for breast cancer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... events were held - one in Afghanistan and one in United Arab Emirates, involving Australian defence force personnel on military bases. "A huge thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered, fundraised and donated to Mother's Day Classic 2014, the ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... as soon as next month. The central banks got our backs! So despite the sabre-rattling between the west and Russia, the military coup in Thailand, the advances by euro sceptic parties in the European elections, tensions between Vietnam and China and a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Tokyo investors next week will keep a close eye on simmering tensions in the Ukraine and events in Thailand following a military coup, while movements in the yen will also be in focus, analysts say. On Friday, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 0.87 ...

Government establishes superannuation fund for the Australian Defence Force (ADF)

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... established on 1 July 2016 and will apply to those joining the ADF from 1 July 2016 and serving and returning members of the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme who choose to join the new scheme. Current members of the Military Superannuation ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... family moved to his mother's native Sydney. At the age of 17 at the suggestion of his father Bell enrolled in Duntroon military college. "It was a tough, all-male, environment," he says. "Either you met the standard or you were out. It wasn't a finishing ...