Forewarned is forearmed: The quixotic challenge of today's equity marketsBY HUGH SELBY-SMITH | FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025 1:39PM Like Don Ǫuixote, today's markets are driven by powerful narratives, and there is value in stepping back to examine what's actually hiding in plain sight.
 What are the rules of the super game?Why would something so obvious as superannuation need an objective? We all know what the intent is, don't we? As we set out on a year which promises more ...  Australia's rude surpriseThe real lesson of the appallingly mishandled AFL Essendon Bombers drugs in sport scandal has nothing to do with sport, it's that we now know what the ...  Is it good tidings that super brings?An intelligent and robust state politician once gave me some good advice during an attempt to solicit a news story. Albeit cliché, he reminded ... Tontines - an old product with some life in itAn investment product comprising gambling, corruption and possibly murder designed for 17th century European monarchies to raise money for war does not ... STEM the tideHere we go again. Business leaders, who know so much about how to educate children, are telling us that the secret weapon to reconfiguring Australia's ...  Super is Murray's big rockProperly calibrating the superannuation system is the most important policy change from the Murray review of the financial system. Does focusing on the price of super make it healthy?Anyone reading the latest Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) report into the private health insurance industry could be easily excused ... Fifty-seven, enough alreadyI'm all for democratic expression, free speech and freedom of association but with 57 industry and professional associations all claiming some interest ... Am I about to be disrupted?Before anyone yawns about another disruption piece, how would you feel if I said one of superannuation's largest components is ripe for change? |
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DANIEL SHRIMSKI
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