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Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... because Australia's economy would now grow by 1.5 per cent instead of the 0.5 per cent contraction forecast in the May Budget. This is because Australia is fortunate enough to sit right next to industrialising China. According to RBA Governor Glen Stevens ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... wear flowers in your hair." Government expenditure? How are we going to pay for the US$1,400,000,000,000 -- and growing -- budget deficit? Taxes will increase sharply in the future and welfare services sharply reduced. Pooped! What's the alternative? ...

Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... and temporarily reducing the co-contribution scheme, along with a boost to age pension payments. Following this year's budget, then superannuation minister Nick Sherry, noted that the reductions were a response to the disproportionate superannuation ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
Financial planners will struggle to get many Gen-Yers to follow financial advice after yet another study found one in four have never budgeted in their life and, even when they do, it's to blow the lot on a holiday. St. George Bank commissioned a study ...

Schroder Asia Pac adds SimCorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... division. Lilian Tham, chief operating officer at Schroders Singapore, said the implementation process was on time and within budget. "This gives us the foundation to extend our capability in Singapore further across the region. The next phase is to ...

High fees barrier to infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Infrastructure managers face tough barriers to mandates from institutional investors if they do not review their high fee models, argues Watson Wyatt. A new research paper from Watson Wyatt, titled Improving Fees in Infrastructure, said the firm favours ...

Gulf wealth to engulf stockmarkets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... where it could more substantially move markets. "Higher oil and gas prices over the past five years have resulted in large budget and current account surpluses and an enormous increase in the net foreign assets and international reserves of the GCC countries ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... await America down the road - when the stimuli are unwound. Take for instance last Friday's report showing that America's budget deficit soared to US$46.61 billion in September, bringing the total FY 2009 deficit to US$1,417,121,000,000. This accounts ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... diminishing. (Although this is also caused by worries over the massive US dollar supply and concern over the growing US budget deficit - but that's beside the point). Whereas demand for risky ones - equities, commodities, corporate credit and commodity-based ...

Trust completes business review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... our core trustee services," said Aitkin. "Our vision is to be Australia's pre-eminent trustee." He said the strategy's budget and plan is still being drafted but speaking to corporatefile, he said there's a lot of demand for the company's responsible ...