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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... infrastructure spending. In managing the NSW Budget there are two major problems - a quarter of a per cent increase in interest rates equates to an $84 million additional cost to state debt, and the fuel bill for NSW has increased by about 40 per cent ...

Aussies spend $8.7bn on celebrity makeover

... women have mounting credit card debts just so they can emulate the rich and famous, driving home the importance of low-interest rate credit cards. And this could also mean that financial planners have to ask their clients some awkward questions on whether ...

Praemium to access UK's wealthiest through Lloyd's

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
Listed portfolio administration provider Praemium will provide services to the UK's wealthiest private investors through a new distribution deal signed with Argenta Private Capital. Praemium has appointed UK based Lloyd's adviser Argenta to distribute ...

Pimco plans absolute return fixed interest fund

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
Pimco Australia has announced it is working on a new absolute return fixed interest fund, the Pimco Absolute Return Series (PARS), which will use leverage to let investors dial up their exposures. Speaking at the Portfolio Construction Conference on ...

APRA got it wrong on AXA: AAT

ALEX DUNNIN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has set aside the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority's (APRA) disqualifications of seven directors of the former trustee of the AXA Australia Staff Superannuation Plan. A statement released by APRA said ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... the Nine Network and ACP magazines combined. Gaming accounted for $535 million of PBL's $978 million earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Mortgage Choice announced a 43 per cent rise in profit to $17.9 million in the face of ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... The benchmark Hang Seng index fell 61.36 points to 17,088.39 after a US Federal Reserve official suggested higher US interest rates may be needed to ward off inflation. WELLINGTON - The benchmark NZX-50 rose 33.3 points to 3460.077.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... opposition has noted that mortgage payments now accrue to a larger proportion of household disposable income than in 1989 when interest rates were as high as 17 per cent. In 1989 the average new home loan was $66,700 and mortgage repayments amounted ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... comments helped push down American International Group Inc., one of the world's largest insurers and a company sensitive to interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 5.21 points, or 0.05 percent, to 11,339.84. The Standard & Poor's 500 ...

Household finances in good shape: RBA

... conventional measures of saving and instead, look at net financial wealth. That is, assets and investments, not just interest gained from putting money in deposits and bonds. "The household saving rate as conventionally measured has recently been negative ...