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Sub-prime 20/20 hindsight

Alan Greenspan, former Fed chief and financial guru, the man who can rock Wall Street with a throwaway line, has admitted he didn't smell the sup-prime coffee during his tenure as Federal Reserve Chairman. Greenspan ran the central bank for more than ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
While we continue to ride the resources boom, it seems that our cash starved infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Flying in the face of a 4.5 per cent jobless rate, strong currency and figures showing 5.5 per cent of household finances have improved in the last month, interest rate uncertainty may account for the latest figures in consumer confidence dipping to ...

Insurance on the go

ANZ and ING Australia have launched a new life insurance product that takes as little as 15 minutes for approval time, around the same time it takes to do a morning coffee run. Called OneCare Express, the life insurance product is developed from ING's ...

PE stirs academic heat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The wave of private equity (PE) investment stirring political concerns in the UK, and to a lesser extent in the US, has prompted Australian academics to attempt a review of how PE investments should be regulated in Australia. Speaking at the Barbarians ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
The first nationwide natural resource management survey by the ABS has revealed the economic cost of ensuring the upkeep of the nation's natural resources that are used for agriculture. During the period 2004-05 farmers spent about $3.3 billion on natural ...

Banks to fund consumer IT security: Symantec

Banks may have to pay for the IT systems of their clients if they want to avert the trend where consumers are refusing to transact online due to rampant IT identity theft and sophisticated internet scams. David Sykes, vice-president of Symantec's Pacific ...

MTAA speeds past $4bn

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
The Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund (MTAA Super) has just broken through the $4 billion mark in funds under management, with $1 billion tumbling into the coffers in just the last year. The steep ramp up in funds under management ...

Careless spending wastes $25bn

A new survey has found that Australians spend an average $25 billion per year on daily luxuries such as takeaway food and trashy magazines, with the unusual discovery that men are actually the bigger 'careless spenders' than women. Virgin Money has ...

Don't drink coffee, make more than $160,000

A new online survey revealed that three out of four young Australians would happily drop daily habits such as buying take-away coffee, office lunch and cigarettes to save up for their retirement. Online superannuation provider maxsuper.com.au conducted ...