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Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
Housing affordability is like petrol prices in that it brings out the economic enthusiasts with their so-called miracle solutions. The latest set of big ideas is from the Senate Select Committee on Housing Affordability that this week released its major ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
So far, Australia's economy has displayed a miraculous sponge-like ability to absorb demand pressures but for how long? According to Grange Securities chief economist, Steven Roberts, the economy is now looking "very stretched" and the RBA might drag ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
The Australian market is expected to open lower, with patchy base metal prices and a neutral lead from Wall Street. At 0801 AEST, the June share price index was down 18 points, at 6354. In economic news today, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute is due ...

China miracle more political than economic: Fidelity Summit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
The China boom story is more a political miracle than an economic evolution, and that makes it even riskier than first imagined. The question of China was posed by Mercer's Tony Cole at the Fidelity Australian Equities Summit. The world has never seen ...

RP Data and Rismark to reform property pricing info

RP Data, Australia and NZ's biggest property data provider, and Rismark International, a real estate funds management JV with Macquarie Bank, have announced an Exclusive Strategic Partnership to rectify house pricing measurement inaccuracies. Under ...

Colonial poaches UBS property securities staff

Colonial First State Global Asset Mangement has poached two key UBS staff in an attempt to recreate the sort of success experienced by the UBS Australasian property securities team. Andrew Nicholas, formerly senior portfolio manager real estate, Australia ...

Equity Trustees appoints regional BDM

Equity Trustees has announced the appointment of a new regional business development manager. Mike Mirams joins the Melbourne-based fund manager and will take responsibility for managing client relationships in Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania. ...

Retirees to keep working and leave nothing for the kids

Forty-eight per cent of retirees plan to live off the pension and more than two-thirds of Australians will spend their money rather than save it for their children. These are the findings emanating from two studies, one published by AXA and the other ...

MFS poised to give special dividends

Unitholders of MFS Diversified trust are poised to receive at least 15 cents per unit special dividend after the Trust offloaded one of its property assets. The Trust has announced this week that it has exchanged an unconditional contract with an undisclosed ...

MFS assets tops $3 billion

McLaughlins Financial Services Limited (MFSL), a subsidiary of listed diversified investments group MFS, has been appointed as the new Responsible Entity (RE) for the PH Sydney Hotel Trust and the Challenger Howard Property Trust. Among the assets managed ...