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Seeking six figures online

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
A new recruitment website that links high income job seeking-hopefuls directly with employers is due to be launched next week, hoping to change the face of the high-end employment scene. Six Figures ( www.sixfigures.com.au ) is the brainchild of HR ...

BNY Mellon champions fiduciary transition

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
A fiduciary transition management style beats the conventional "agent" model when it comes to cutting admin costs, according to BNY Mellon Asset Management Australia. Mellon Transition Management Services (MTMS), the transition management specialist ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
There's not much point to Australia's terms of trade being at record levels if all it does is drive up our currency and keeps us suffocating under a current account deficit that just won't budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay ...

Super promoter faces trial

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Queensland-based Richard Clayton Jackson Sharland, a promoter of a superannuation rollover scheme, appeared in the Brisbane Magistrate Court yesterday to stand trial on a date to be fixed on 22 charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Magellan builds infrastructure team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Magellan Financial Group has recruited Kris Webster to its investment team in the firm's latest endeavour to bolster its infrastructure capabilities. Webster will be playing an integral role in analysing and valuing global listed infrastructure securities ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ING Investment Management (ING IM) and Credit Agricole Asset Management (Singapore) beat 36 global fund managers and custodians to manage the Philippine Government Service Insurance System's $1.1 billion global asset mandate. The Government Service ...

K2 to tread lightly in 2008

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Boutique fund manager K2 Asset Management's international absolute return funds have reported positive returns to date, but the first half of 2008 may soon prove to be the toughest challenge yet for its investors. K2's Select International Absolute ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released an analysis of how Australia's international trade profile has changed since Federation, confirming just how much our world has changed and why Asia and not the US is what drives our economy. ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
When rappers and supermodels choose Euros over the greenback, what does that say about the direction of the US economy? The world's richest model, Gisele BA1/4ndchen is apparently insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar ...

Poor transparency not operations caused sub-prime: Moss

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
Bad transparency rather than bad lending products per se is what disrupted credit markets over the last three months, according to Macquarie Group managing director Allan Moss. "Transparency has been the key issue that has unsettled credit markets over ...