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Lower foreign withholding tax will boost Australia: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
Advocates campaigning for why Australia should lower the foreign investor withholding tax have for the first time started explaining how the improved tax rate would boost our local investment industry and help Australia develop its ability to compete ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
The market is expected to open with heavy losses, with weak base metal prices and poor lead from Wall Street expected to take a toll. At 0703 AEST, the June share price index was down 59 points or 0.94 per cent, at 6239. In company news, Babcock & Brown ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
The local market will likely open weaker with New York finishing lower and industrial metals prices plunging, with copper dropping to a six-week low on the London Metal Exchange. At 0755 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index ...

UBS Australia imports global strength

The newly appointed chief executive of UBS Global Asset Management Australia, Paul Bolinowsky, has signalled that the group will increasingly use the intellectual muscle of its parent company as more and more local investors demand investment products ...

Finsia sells education to focus on member services

One of the country's longest running financial institutes, the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) has signalled a change in business direction after it agreed to sell its education arm to Kaplan Inc enabling it to concentrate on providing ...

Magellan next gen boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
The launch of Magellan Financial Group (MFG) signals the dawn of the next generation of boutique financial services companies that are not just specialist manufacturers but integrated and sustainable businesses. MGF evolved in 2006 from the recapitalised ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
The much awaited Reserve Bank of Australia announcement of interest rates was made this morning after their monthly meeting yesterday. The RBA decided not to raise the cash rate from 6.25 per cent. This will cause the weight of opinion for an interest ...

DeAM sets sights firmly on alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... that's where all our distribution efforts are going to go," Larsen said. And Fay was quick to add that the move did not signal a withdrawal from the Australian institutional market. "You should not read into this that we are getting out of the institutional ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
The Japanese economy continues to show consistently good economic signals with the national surplus rising by 7.7 per cent in February compared to a year earlier. While exports grew by 9.7 per cent over the period, the fastest rate for eight months ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following the positive US lead and robust metal prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up 28 points at 5,904. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...