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Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... to build on average each year over the past two decades. In other words, without a housing construction productivity revolution it isn't going to happen. And if the odds on a construction building revolution weren't long enough already, the housing skills ...

Cloud software brings pay-per-audit revolution

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
New auditing software for self-managed super funds enables practices to avoid license fees by paying per audit. Financial services software provider Sage HandiSoft has created an audit application for SMSFs that is accessed online and stored in the ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... that is original, scalable and network connected, say US advice industry researchers. In their paper, The Consumer Revolution - Surviving and Thriving in a Time of Tectonic Shifts, authors Joseph Duran, Joseph Michelli and Robert Doede argue that the ...

US ceiling raised but underlying reasons remain

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... underpaid its basic workers for a generation," said Abernethy. "The massive wealth creation generated by the industrial revolution, the IT revolution and the internet has not been shared with the labour that was the essential element of the manufacturing ...

SimpleWRAP launches $1500 platform pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
New platform provider, simpleWRAP, will charge just $1500 per annum in its newly-launched full service administration wrap, regardless of account balances, in a bid to appeal to large super funds and smaller investors. The new wrap platform won't have ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... This was the prevailing thought only a few months ago - in January, February, March and April -- when the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East and North Africa sent oil prices gushing up. This was the prevailing thought when natural calamities in ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... in the materials, energy and infrastructure sectors were a good bet along with tech stocks that addressed the mobile revolution such as Apple, according to Marvin. Steven Billiet, chief executive of ING Investment Management, said he expected the US ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... reverse the upward momentum in consumer prices. The same goes with other emerging markets. There will be a Jasmine Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. While it will lead to the peaceful ousting of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... the Middle East is likely to spread to Latin America and parts of Asia, threatening Western investments. "It's not a revolution of the destitute," he said, pointing to demographics that show the population of the region was overwhelmingly young. "It's ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Wall Street rebounds as oil pressure dips. This is the overall theme that you'll read, hear and watch on financial services this day. It's the mirror image of the previous day's "Wall Street dips as oil pressure bounds" theme, or days when The Street ...