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VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... balance their budgets and reduce their debts. News reports out over the weekend say that Michelle Obama threatened to divorce Barack in 2000 because he ignored her advice about his political career. Oh sorry, wrong report. Take two. News reports out ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... headlines and is again creating anxiety all over the place. While financial markets have seemingly gotten over Merkozy's divorce and have started to accept that it would be "Merde" from here on (deym, markets didn't take to my Frangela), Greece has come ...

Estate planning specialist joins Equity Trustees

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... asset in their family home. In addition, there is often the added complication of the family situation, perhaps through divorce and remarriage," said Wraith. Equity Trustees manages over $4 billion in its funds management, private client and superannuation ...

HESTA members get insurance boost

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... Approved key life events include marriage, birth or adoption, reaching a milestone birthday such as 25, 30, 40 or 50, divorce, a child starting primary or secondary school, getting a degree, death of a spouse, salary hike, taking out a mortgage or moving ...

ASFA: Focus on the positives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
This year's ASFA conference in Brisbane opened in high spirits, despite the last minute cancellation of one of the key note speakers, Dr. Jose-Ramos Horta. The Timor -Leste president was replaced in the opening plenary session by former Liberal Foreign ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
OMG! We're really in trouble now, Italian-sized big trouble. Italy - the economy that's considered too big to bail - looks like it's gonna need one as the yield on its 10-year government bonds surged past the 7% bailout mark. Italian 10-year bonds rose ...

IOOF tweaks platform risk insurance for super

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... increase their death, TPD and income protection cover at important life event stages such as marriage, the birth of a child, divorce or the taking out of a mortgage. Renato Mota, general manager for distribution said IOOF believed members would be better ...

Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee. Many Australian couples are often unaware of the effect divorce can ...

Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... their level of super. What's more, the study factors other social considerations that can affect super balances such as divorce and the division of super assets. "It's a neat box to put them in, but the reality is that the super situation of 40 year ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... Valentine's. For a day of love, it seems that majority of Germans don't want to bear gifts to the Greeks - instead, they want a divorce. No love lost. A poll by Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper revealed that 67 per cent of Germans did not want their ...