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Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... preparation of 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 ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... at $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
... (UNRRA). She then went on to work for Liberal Federal Member of Parliament, John Howse, rubbing shoulders with Ministers and Prime Ministers. She went on to enter the world of financial planning at an age when many are contemplating retirement. Gwen's ...

Brookfield shakes up board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... role as independent director of Brookfield Capital Management Limited, the responsible entity for the ASX-listed Brookfield Prime Property Fund. Motteram was a board member of Brookfield from 2007. His departure took effect on 28 February. Motteram's ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Obama 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 ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... reform 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 ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... for the 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 ...

Towers Watson sees spike in smart beta uptake

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... started developing the concept in 2000 as part of our work on structured alpha, and then in more detail in 2002 as beta prime." However, he went on to express concern about "the proliferation of products now on the market that claim to be smart beta ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... announcements by Qantas, Telstra and Ford, among others, gave the negativity in the latest jobs numbers an extra kick. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey must be wishing they "could blame it on the sunshine, blame it on the ...

Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Services and say that there will never be another financial crisis again, there will never be another Storm, Westpoint or Opes Prime I think I'm setting myself up for a fall because you can't account for all circumstances," Sinodinos told Financial Standard. ...