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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... Australia Ltd will list on the ASX. Future Fund chairman David Murray is speaking today to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). The Australian stock market closed flat yesterday with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index down 1.4 points ...

Tolhurst appoints new economist/strategist

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
Tolhurst has announced the appointment of former Aegis analyst Tony Farnham as economist/strategist. Explaining his move, he said that, "It really came down to the fact that I just wanted to have taste of the executing broker side of the business, which ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... their invoices remained unpaid for months on end. But according to independent think tank, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Australia still has a major challenge in encouraging business innovation and boosting infrastructure ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... 2009 our global competitiveness ranking is likely to continue to be cut-down. According to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), the country's leading independent think tank, Australia's economic infrastructure in particular is ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... Competition and Consumer Commission, Graham Samuels, will talk on the subject of mergers to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). Yesterday, the Australian share market suffered its biggest one-day fall in more than five years ...

Managing market might require regulatory change: Macfarlane

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... products have become more complex," he said. However, Macfarlane said, "It is a normal part of the process of economic development. Indeed it is one of the most important means by which economic growth occurs. One obvious sign of this is the upward trend ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... opportunities for solving Australia's savings shortfall and building superannuation structures to underpin economic development. Recounting the long road towards enshrining a superannuation guarantee (SG) contribution, which eventually stopped at only ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... economic impacts of the ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), in a speech to be delivered in Madrid today, is warning that countries not responding to these challenges ...

NZ securities reforms pass legislature

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
... confidence and participation, enhancing the integrity of our financial markets, and ultimately assisting economic development by increasing investment in New Zealand," said Dalziel. The Bill operates by amending and updating the Securities Act 1978 ...

Funds must make it easier to amalgamate small accounts: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
Treasurer Peter Costello, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) conference this week, said the superannuation industry must work harder to make amalgamations of small accounts easier. "Kids have got a whole lot of part-time ...