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Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... world's second biggest economy dive into its biggest contraction in 35 years. The Bank of Japan's hands are tied with interest rates now at zero and it is now up to the government to stand up to the plate. But even the government is having difficulty ...

IG Markets offers more transparency

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... Italy and Germany. Among the benefits of DMA trading of CFDs are: allowing CFD clients to compare buying and selling interest by seeing queues of buy and sell orders; enabling traders to set their own prices and trade directly with other market participants ...

Carthona endorses UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Carthona Agriculture, a green investment consultancy for institutional investors, is incorporating the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment into its services. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona, said applying these principles ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... quarter, taking housing to its most affordable level in five years. These are some examples of how the monetary (lower interest rates) and fiscal (government stimulus package) mechanisms are being transmitted much more quickly in Australia than in our ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... outlook for this year is non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears seemingly nonchalant perhaps applying the 'Tortoise and the Hare' principle ...

Planners to face cashflow crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... demographics to diversify their income source. More importantly, if a planning group forecasts problems with paying their interest bill on bank loans, Arnold urges them to speak to their bank sooner than later. "We've been doing work in recent times ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... 60 per cent of the economy remains resilient... so far. And this is what the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) recent interest rate reductions and the Federal Government's fiscal stimulus measures are trying to preserve. Be careful what you wish for. ...

Accelerate to improve tele-underwriting

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Tower Australia is looking to upgrade its Accelerate offering in 2009 by fine-tuning its tele-underwriting service to churn out decisions in less than three days. According to Brett Yardley, head of offer strategy at Tower, development projects for ...

Telstra Super hires JANA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... Rainmaker, Telstra Super has more than $9.8 billion in funds under management across private equity, property, fixed interest, local and global equities and cash investments.

Plusses and minuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... first homebuyers' grant to A$21,000 and doubling of the grant for those buying existing homes also appear to have revived interest in property. The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) hand was also in this as it slashed interest rates from 7.25 per cent ...