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Author: Stephen Calder

Stephen Calder

Stephen Calder started as a financial journalist on The Australian in the early 1970s, then joined the Sydney Futures Exchange in 1980 and spent the next ten years as the exchange's Public Relations and Education Manager. He has been a specialist writer on derivatives since 1996, having written for Personal Investment, Investorweb, Shares magazine, Smart Investor and the Australian Financial Review.

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