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Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... could create an incentive for carbon neutral electricity to compete head to head at a considerable price discount, the theory being that traditional power companies will be forced to improve (ie lessen) their carbon production footprint to lower their ...

New take on old fee debate

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... performance-based fees the way a fund manager does? Tim Swift, director at Focus Financial Planning, said that would sound good in theory but not so easy in practice. "Definitely, most clients are probably along the lines of saying 'if I win, you win ...

Rising Star calls for home loan tax relief

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... would be all it might do is make property prices go up, because you'd actually have more demand because property prices in theory are a factor of demand and supply." He also questioned the proposal's objective, saying, "Is it [the objective] to give ...

To tailor or not to tailor

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... process." Michael Houlihan, manager of retail products and technical services at Vanguard, said what is straightforward in theory might not translate quite as seamlessly in practice. "In a lot of cases, there's not a lot of logic to actually building ...

Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... happens in the butcher shop or the shoe store. It is also contrary to what is supposed to happen according to economic theory," they wrote. To explain this new paradigm, the authors have coined the Law of Patterned Herding to describe how economic and ...

Economic round-up: The great interest rate debate

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... 2008. If strong growth remains persistent so will the threat to inflation. Market expectations continue to support the theory that RBA's tightening cycle has more to deliver and nothing Steven's said last week contradicted that. According to AMP Capital's ...

Economic round up: GDP vs. gross domestic happiness

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
... Australia along with most wealthy nations, happiness has stagnated over the last 50 years. This anomaly tends to support the theory that consumerist societies fail to convert their material wealth and benign working conditions to higher levels of satisfaction. ...

Accommodation shopping? Try the local mall

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... approvals for units. They will have been almost as disappointed as those in the housing market looking to buy or rent. In theory, accommodation shortages driving rents should have sparked renewed interest for investors and developers. But developers ...

Fund managers better buyers than sellers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... outcome was managers selling winners and holding on to loser too long, a phenomenon known as the "disposition effect". "This theory helps to explain some of the investment decisions we see occurring regularly, such as selling too early and holding on ...

Attitude determines financial altitude: Plum

... savings program unless they fill up the forms to opt-out. The reasoning behind it is that, according to behavioural finance theory, people can be classified into five categories from the 'avoiders', or those who won't do anything about their retirement ...