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Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... would remain largely unaffected. This is another case of the bad news for Europe where not one but both major economic agents -- households and governments -- are trying to save in the face of dwindling incomes. The very reason I'm in the pro-growth ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... are prepared to act (at best) or have kicked the crisis can further down (at worst) should start revving these economic agents back into action. If not, then financial markets would again be held hostage by what the powers that be say or don't say they ...

Risk needs to shift in line with mission

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... and in particular with endogenous risk, and that investing over multiple periods and taking account of the motivations of agents considerably complicates risk management. "Models have value, but only where they are employed with good understanding. By ...

Short-termism crippling wealth management

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... direction at the moment with everyone focused on the short term." The paper assessed the current behaviour of key industry agents, including corporate management, active fund managers, asset consultants, super fund trustees and 'mum and dad' investors ...

Community housing wants to attract super funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... constraining the economy. He said the pent-up demand had resulted in a supply shortage at the same time as real-estate agents have an oversupply of product to sell. More people were pushed from home ownership to long-term rental, increasing rents. "We're ...

Planning firm invests in property to widen appeal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... before taking the plunge into property. "A lot of the information about property trends is generated by sellers and their agents and many of the surveys we read deliver findings to suit a particular agenda - which is not necessarily the buyer's," he ...

Planners commission ban skips property

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... reported on a consolidated basis that encompasses all the SMSF's investments. "So these sorts of alliances [between property agents and planners] provide planners with opportunities to broaden their revenue by providing strategic advice on a range of ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... headlines. And this is bad. This is because it could start another bout of self-feeding negativism among economic and market agents. But this bad news could also force money and fiscal policy makers into quicker, more resolute action. And this is goo ...

Director to challenge ASIC ban

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... Collection, which provides debt collection services, investor home loans and landlord services. Landlords, real estate agents and property developers entered into a referral agreement with the company via a broker, ASIC said. ASIC said Burnell breached ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... laissez faire is an economic ism stipulating that the government should not intervene in legal transactions between economic agents. This philosophy is closely tied with Adam Smith's "invisible hand". Smith postulated that an economic system that allows ...