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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
Evidence of the softening of consumer demand comes with the latest sales of new motor vehicles data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which shows that on a national seasonally adjusted basis sales grew by only 2.9 per cent. The most growth occurred ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
The returns to the house prices of the Australian capital cities has shown a weighted average return over the year to September of 9.5 per cent of which Western Australia property values increased a staggering 45.9 percent, Darwin a healthy 17.3 and ...

AFA unveils new board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has unveiled its new board and the recent elections have resulted in a dramatic revamp. Paul Riegelhuth, national vice president, Gerry Porter, Queensland director, and Craig Yates, Tasmanian director, remain ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The ANZ job series released yesterday showed the number of major newspaper and internet job ads rose by 5.8 per cent in October to an average of more than 195,000 per week, 25.3 per cent higher a year ago. The earlier September increase of 0.3 per cent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The recent uplift in consumer sentiment as measured by the Westpac survey has not been transferred into much buoyancy in retail sales, as indicated by the ABS monthly release of the data yesterday. Retail sales grew by just 0.1 per cent in seasonally ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...

Perennial to re-think global fixed income strategy

Perennial Investment Partners is re-evaluating its global fixed income strategy with its five year contract with Legg Mason owned overseas manager Western Asset Management (WAM) ending today. A lot of things can happen in five years. In WAM's case ...

AFS appoints new regional manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
Australian Financial Services (AFS) has announced the appointment of a new regional manager for Western Australia and South Australia. AFS chief executive officer, Peter Daly, welcomed Ken Blayney to the position, highlighting the importance of Western ...

Daily economic round-up

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
The Housing Industry Association has confirmed the patchy performance of the Australian property market, saying that over the last three years, when the equity market was booming, housing starts in New South Wales fell by 37 per cent although in Western ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
The US release of key retail sales data for September showed that while there was a 0.4 per cent fall in sales most of this was due to the 9.3 per cent reduction in petrol station sales due to falling fuel costs since July. Consequently, excluding fuel ...