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Day: July 22, 2013

Got a problem? Just reclassify and it will disappear

It was a piece of Canberra politics so audacious, I was honestly inspired. Gobsmacked, I was. “Pure genius!” I screamed too loudly to a household that was, apart from me, devoid of awake human beings. “Now, THAT is how you make a problem disappear.” Let me explain. On June 26, just hours after Julia Gillard […]

How super is your return?

PORTFOLIO POINT: How well did you do your job as SMSF investment manager last year? You needed to beat 14.81%. Unless you were still bunkered down in the ultra-defensive end of the investment world, the financial year ended 30 June should have been a good one for you. A ripper of a year for Australian […]

Is age discrimination an issue in Australia’s financial services sector? Who is affected, and can it be stopped?

Is this where I get to go mental over the endless targeting of us young’uns by our shameful older politicians? That selfish, silver-spooned, born-to-rule, earth-pillaging Boomer generation running the country now? (You want ageist? Try that!) Well, I’m not going to. And I don’t think that of Boomers anyway. Discrimination is “unjust or prejudicial treatment”. […]