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Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...

Industry funds biggest losers from switching

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Industry super funds reaped the least switching gains at the end of last year, as they reported for the first time a negative net share of superannuation switching behaviour, a new survey by Roy Morgan shows. During the six months leading up to September ...

Coombe calls for better super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Superannuation is entering a golden age in Australia and it's time we started to focus on our end-customers, said Rob Coombe, chief executive of wealth management for BT Financial Group when speaking at yesterdays' Association of Super Funds of Australia ...

PE investment in UK boosts job: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), through a survey confirming the economic impact of private equity investment, has hit back at claims private equity investors have poor disclosure and do not contribute to the national economy. "In the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a strong lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0715 AEDT, the March share price index contract was up 31 points at 5929. In economic news today, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute ...

Data quality a global problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
According to a new survey by AIM Software, the global financial industry continues to struggle complying with Basel II, Markets in Financial Instruments Directives and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, citing data quality as their biggest problem. The survey ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
Following the 178 recommendations of the Productivity Commission Taskforce on how the government might reduce bureaucratic problems associated with the administration of the GST and FBT, Treasurer Costello has announced that 158 of the recommendations ...

Baby boomers set to live it up in retirement: CommBank

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
A Commonwealth Bank (CBA) survey has revealed that baby boomers will approach retirement in a far more active way than past generations, with two-thirds believing they will be able to afford their lifestyle of choice. The Lifestyle Aspirations survey ...

Weekly economic round-up

The monetary policy outlook dominates this week's financial market activity with Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of England and the European Central Bank meetings to deliberate on their respective interest rate settings. The end of last week's financial ...

Daily economic update

There was no surprise in the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to keep official interest rates unchanged at 5.5 per cent. Financial markets were certain that the RBA Board's first meeting for 2006 would not produce any movement in credit rates ...