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Yellen’s unusual priority for a central banker

Click Here to Read the PDF  Yellen’s unusual priority for a central banker by Michael Collins, Investment Commentator at Fidelity July 2014 Alan Greenspan in 2006 retired a hero after 19 years as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Within two years, the…

May 28 Update – Trevor Thompson

I had a discussion with a new friend at weekend, you know, taking a professional interest in their super. “No, dont have much super, I dont like super, I know people who lost money” Now lets just get this straight…

May 20 Update – Trevor Thompson

From the broker report. “US San Francisco Federal Reserve President Williams and Dallas Fed President Fisher spoke at a monetary policy conference. Both speakers agreed that the super-easing monetary policy conditions could have adverse consequences in the long run –…

May 16 Update – Trevor Thompson

You might have read a post about changes to the Centrelink assessment of an Account based Pension (what you turn your super into when you retire) The current exemption from the Age Pension Income Test goes in January next year.…

May 14 Update – Trevor Thompson

If you are 48 or under the Age Pension is now relevant to you at age 70. If you want to retire at age 65 and were going to depend on the pension well you now need to concentrate on…

May 13 Update – Trevor Thompson

So I met a new client yesterday who has just retired. Why did he choose us? Well one of the reasons was that we offered to fill in his Age Pension claim form. Its amazing how normal people can get…

May 13 Update – Trevor Thompson

So if you have Trauma cover a message to check the definitions. If you don’t have trauma cover,well I just don’t get that but hey… Three months ago I posted about getting a regular skin cancer check, Today was my…

May 10 Update – Trevor Thompson

We had our annual audit on Thursday. We are very proud of the result. This is from the audit report “you have a well-developed advice process and your files clearly evidenced that the advice provided was in the best interests…

May 2 Update – Trevor Thompson

Get these statistics on Living insurance, (stuff you don’t have to die to make a claim on, includes Income Protection, Trauma and Total and Permanent Disability) One insurer reports 46 as the average age at claim, another 46.5 and another 49.…