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Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

... education (4.9 per cent) and transportation (4.6 per cent). In particular, the cost of fruit; property rates and charges; and water and sewerage costs have gone up during the past three months. Michelle Baltazar

Don't bury reverse mortgages in regulation: Martin

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... added that if the obsession with regulation and reverse mortgage doom and gloom continued the industry would be dead in the water, denying seniors an important option for financing their retirement. "I think there is a huge risk that we are drowning ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... greatest contributors to the rise over the quarter were fruit (20.5 per cent), property rates and charges (5.6 per cent) and water and sewerage (4.7 per cent), while prices heading down were vegetables (-5.3 per cent) and pharmaceuticals (-5 per cent). ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... this time last year largely as a result of the domestic component related to building construction, electricity, gas and water and real estates. The intermediate stage shows that there was a quarterly change of 1.3 per cent which translated to a 6.7 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... the last five years. The rural sector accounts for only 3 per cent of national income yet it consumes about 70 per cent of water used in Australia. Deputy National Leader Warren Truss has floated the idea of encouraging farmers to move to northern Australia ...

MLC analyst bags 2006 Future Leaders Award

... the government could collaborate to launch new products, such as a 'Centrelink Pension Card' that would offer discounted water rates and cheap transport fees for retirees who opt for an income stream instead of a lump sum. The awards' keynote speaker ...

IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... Management (IFM) has announce that a consortium it is involved with is bidding to takeover AWG in the UK, the fourth-largest water supplier and sewage company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions, which is ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... being sourced from overseas on an increasingly large scale. Australian Fund managers have invested $7.2 million in the UK water market via Utilities there. This follows earlier European infrastructure investments like the Rome and Brussels airports ...

HESTA boosts insurance for members

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... upgrade default levels of protection comes six years after the last insurance contract was struck. "There's been a lot of water under the bridge since the last contract was signed and our members' positions have changed in that period," he said. "We ...

There's room for more alpha: T. Rowe Price

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... Is there an opportunity there?" As a high conviction manager, holding just 74 stocks globally, Gensler also throws cold water on benchmark aware investing. "At the stock level, benchmarks make no sense. If you don't like a name, don't own it." He also ...